Re: initdb authentication

Patch applied.  Thanks.

I just cleaned up some of the code formatting.

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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Ok, here is another one.
>
> Doc patches coming up if/when this one is approved.
>
> //Magnus
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> >Sent: den 17 juli 2004 03:11
> >To: Magnus Hagander
> >Cc: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
> >Subject: Re: [PATCHES] initdb authentication
> >
> >
> >
> >I got a new idea on this.  I think we should add an initdb option that
> >takes a string to specify the local authentication method:
> >
> >    initdb --localauth 'ident'
> >
> >or whatever the user wants.  I think this is more flexible and more
> >compact.  It would default to 'trust', and the packagers could
> >set it to
> >whatever they want.  If their OS supports local ident, they can use
> >that.
> >
> >Also keep in mind you might want some ident map file:
> >
> >    initdb --localauth 'ident mymap'
> >
> >so you would need to allow multiple words in the string.
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------------------
> >------------
> >
> >Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> Here's a version of this patch that includes documentation updates.
> >>
> >> //Magnus

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