Re: getpeereid() for local ident

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

    http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Alex Cichowski wrote:
> Regarding the following "openbsd getpeereid(), local ident:" thread on the
> pgsql-patches list, Nov 2002:
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Please send over the patch and I will see if I can get it in.  I had
> > meant to add getpeereid() for OpenBSD myself but never go the time.
> > ...
> > William Ahern wrote:
> > > there's a patch for getpeereid() dated Dec 3, 2001. a follow-up post
> > > said that something like it was already in, but "not using
> > > getpeereid". however, openbsd only supports getpeereid(). will this
> > > patch be implemented?
>
> I needed the local ident authentication feature on OpenBSD and it seemed
> simple enough, so I implemented it myself. I have attached my patch, which
> was made for the 7.3.1 source tree. (The patch referenced above seems to
> add a new authentication method rather than extending the current local
> ident support.)
>
> >From the Dec 2001 pgsql-patches thread "Add another AUTHTYPE for
> UNIX-domain connections":
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > OpenBSD implements only getpeereid().  I have added this to the TODO
> > list.  We already have the other BSD's covered, and Linux.  I am
> > concerned about moving to getpeereid() on the other BSD's because we
> > have working code already for them and I am not sure how new the OS has
> > to be to have getpeereid() support, i.e. is it in FreeBSD 4.4?
>
> I have put the getpeereid() code last in the #elif chain in this patch, so
> getpeereid() will only be used if there is no other alternative.
>
> If you wish to use this patch, please verify that I have added the
> autoconf check for getpeereid() correctly, as I am not very familiar with
> autoconf.
>
> Sincerely,
> Alex

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