Re: Re: Authentification

Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There is no such authentication type as "peer".

> Hmm, seems to be a bug in the Debian package.
>> From /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf:

> #   peer:       Authentication is done as for ident, but by obtaining user
> #               identification from the Unix socket credentials.  (This
> #               service is only supported by a few operating systems.  If
> #               it is not usable in a particular implementation, use of
> #               this method will cause an error.)  Username mapping is
> #               exactly the same as for ident.

Where did that come from?  There is certainly no such thing in any
official Postgres release.  Is Debian shipping locally-modified
Postgres?  If so I think they need to label it as such.

            regards, tom lane