Re: [PATCHES] Allow IDENT authentication on local connections (Linux only)

Tom Lane wrote: >[ redirected to pgsql-hackers for comment ] > >Helge Bahmann <bahmann@math.tu-freiberg.de> writes: >>
OnTue, 31 Jul 2001, Tom Lane wrote: >>> There is a more complete version of this capability in the Debian patch >>>
set. I think we've been waiting for Oliver to pull it out and submit it >>> as a patch... > >> Ok found it; uses "peer"
asa keyword instead of "ident" but basically >> does the same thing. I think you can discard my patch then. > >Well, we
needto talk about that.  I like your idea of making ident auth >"just work" on local connections better than Oliver's
approachof >inventing a separate auth-type keyword.  So some kind of merger of the >two patches seems attractive to me.
But Oliver may feel that he has to >continue to support the "peer" keyword on Debian anyway, for backwards
>compatibility. If so, do we want different ways of doing the same thing >on different distros, or should we just
followthe Debian precedent to >keep things ugly-but-consistent?
 

This change has only been made in the unstable release; so I don't mind
if peer and ident are folded together.  Anyone running unstable knows
the world may turn upside down beneath him!

So if you have a patch to do that, go ahead.

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