Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] users in Postgresql

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Zeugswetter Andreas SEV wrote:

> > speaking. The one
> > feature the createuser script has over the CREATE USER "SQL" 
> > command is
> > that you can pick your system ID. Ignoring the question whether or not
> > this has any real purpose, it seems this is almost like 
> > rolling dice since
> 
> The sysid is essential for one of the authentication methods available in
> PostgreSQL
> (was it ident, I forgot) where the unix system password was used.

Can't be ident, since I am running it with differing user ids. Perhaps
some odd usage of password authentication, but I don't use that too much.

Hence, can anyone comment on this?

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