Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:32:23PM +0200, Volker Aßmann wrote:
> That's what we are currently doing with the patch Bernd posted at the beginning
> of this thread. But we thought we might post the patch for consideration here
> as the use case might be sufficiently general that it may be of use to others.

It isn't general enough.

> But I like the more general approach proposed by Alvaro, so in case this patch
> would have a chance to not be immediately rejected, I would try to implement
> the more generic approach. I would also include a check to ensure at least one
> reasonably secure way for password recovery is available. For Unix systems
> "peer" authentication seems to be a good candidate.

Likely to be rejected.

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