Re: Bug in createlang?

"Matt Block" wrote:
  >Believe Debian sid does.

Not any more.  It uses Unix socket authentication by default.  Originally
Debian installed as "local all trust"; later I switched to using TCP/IP
and ident, but people objected because of the perceived insecurity of
identd, which they did not want running on their machines.  So then I
switched to Unix socket authentication.

...>
  >-----Original Message-----
  >From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
  >[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane

  >Note that locking down the unix socket is little help if one is using a
  >startup script that helpfully supplies -i by default.  I am not sure
  >what the score is with all the startup scripts that are in various RPMs
  >and other platform-specific distributions; does anyone know if there are
  >any that ship with -i enabled?
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