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

Can you send over your version for review.  We can edit the 'peer' part.


> Tom Lane wrote:
>   >[ redirected to pgsql-hackers for comment ]
>   >
>   >Helge Bahmann <bahmann@math.tu-freiberg.de> writes:
>   >> On Tue, 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" as a keyword instead of "ident" but basically
>   >> does the same thing. I think you can discard my patch then.
>   >
>   >Well, we need to talk about that.  I like your idea of making ident auth
>   >"just work" on local connections better than Oliver's approach of
>   >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 follow the 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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