On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Mats Erik Andersson
<bsd@gisladisker.se> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> the recent introduction of new options `--auth-local'
> and `--auth-host' have lead to some confusion in the
> help massage for inetdb, leaving an erroneous `local'
> for `--auth' and `--auth-host'. Please consider the
> following patch to improve the relevance.
Hi!
The idea behind the current wording is that it only sets the
authentication type for 127.0.0.1 and ::1 -- there is no entry in
pg_hba.conf generated for non-local TCP/IP connections. Perhaps we
could clarify it by saying "localhost TCP/IP" rather than "local
TCP/IP" though?
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