Re: trust auth in 7.4

Henk van Lingen <henkvl@cs.uu.nl> writes:
>   the pg_hba.conf shipped with 7.4.1 PGDG RPMs for RHEL 3 has:

>   # CAUTION: The default configuration allows any local user to connect
>   # using any PostgreSQL user name, including the superuser, over either
>   # Unix-domain sockets or TCP/IP.  If you are on a multiple-user
>   # machine, the default configuration is probably too liberal for you.
>   # Change it to use something other than "trust" authentication.

Which is correct for a stock built-from-source installation.

>   but the only active line is:
>   local  all    all             ident   sameuser
>   which seems not quit what was said above, to me.

The RPM distribution changes the default authentication setup.  Seems
like that patch ought to adjust the comments too ... Lamar?

            regards, tom lane