Re: [PATCHES] Allow IDENT authentication on local connections (Linux only)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, Helge Bahmann <bahmann(at)math(dot)tu-freiberg(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Allow IDENT authentication on local connections (Linux only)
Date: 2001-08-02 04:24:37
Message-ID: 1734.996726277@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Can someone find the Solaris patch submitted a few months ago that did a
> similar thing? I can't seem to find it.

I couldn't find one either. I found a couple of unsupported assertions
that Solaris and *BSD had SO_PEERCRED, so the Linux patch might work
for them. We'll find out soon enough, I suppose.

regards, tom lane

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