Re: Authentication Enhancement Proposal

On Feb 1, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Christopher Hotchkiss <christopher.hotchkiss@gmail.com> writes:
>> I would like to propose (and volunteer to do if its considered to be a
>> decent idea) to extend the mapping of users to roles in the pg_ident.conf to
>> incorporate groups.
>
> Um ... there isn't any real distinction between users and groups
> anymore, they're all roles.  So it's not clear to me what you're
> proposing that doesn't work now.  Or at least could be made to work,
> possibly not in quite the way you're thinking, but using the already
> existing features.
>
>            regards, tom lane

I'm sorry I wasn't clear Tom. I was referring to allowing the mapping of operating system users/groups to postgres
roles.Today as far as I can tell only os users are mappable not the groups. Thoughts? 

Thanks,
Christopher Hotchkiss