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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(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: Re: [PATCHES] Allow IDENT authentication on local connections (Linux only)
Date: 2001-08-02 10:22:20
Message-ID: 200108021022.f72AMKx11191@candle.pha.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.

Not here on BSD/OS. I know I saw a Solaris patch that did exactly this
and I questioned it because it was only for Solaris. Now that I
research and I see different OS's doing this different ways, and I have
mucked up hba.c already, it seemed like a good patch.

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