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

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Can someone find the Solaris patch submitted a few months ago that did a
> > similar thing?  I can't seem to find it.
> 
> I couldn't find one either.  I found a couple of unsupported assertions
> that Solaris and *BSD had SO_PEERCRED, so the Linux patch might work
> for them.  We'll find out soon enough, I suppose.

Not here on BSD/OS.  I know I saw a Solaris patch that did exactly this
and I questioned it because it was only for Solaris.  Now that I
research and I see different OS's doing this different ways, and I have
mucked up hba.c already, it seemed like a good patch.

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