Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option

On 05/06/2015 02:13 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> (Personally I think there's a very good case for completely ripping out 
>> RFC1413 ident auth. I've not seen it used in a great long while, and 
>> it's always been a security risk.)
> 
> FWIW, I agree with that --- or at least making it a not-built-by-default
> option.

I have seen it in the last year, actually, but only once, which even for
my personal pool represents < 1% usage.  So ...

> Probably the right time to make any such changes is at the same time
> we add the proposed more-secure-than-MD5 password option.

+1 to kill off ident when we replace MD5, since users will need to be
beaten over the head about changes to auth methods anyway.

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