Re: Problem w/ IDENT authentication

From: Paul Thomas <paul(at)tmsl(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Ian Pilcher <i(dot)pilcher(at)comcast(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problem w/ IDENT authentication
Date: 2004-07-26 09:58:19
Message-ID: 20040726105819.A23822@bacon
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On 26/07/2004 09:53 Ian Pilcher wrote:
> I am trying to set up IDENT authentication for Tomcat 5 on my Fedora
> Core 2 system. I've added the appropriate line to pg_hba.conf:
>
> host tomcat4 tomcat4 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 ident sameuser
>
> This works as expected from a console:

that's because you're connecting via tcp/ip sockets from Tomcat and unix
domain sockets from psql. Personally, I find md5 + firewall more than
sufficient.

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