Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 4. Januar 2008 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > Using the attached patch, SSL will act over Unix-domain sockets.  AFAICT,
> > > this just works.  I didn't find a way to sniff a Unix-domain socket,
> > > however.
> > >
> > > How should we proceed with this?
> >
> > I am confused by the shortness of this patch.  Right now pg_hba.conf
> > has:
> >
> > 	# host       DATABASE  USER  CIDR-ADDRESS  METHOD  [OPTION]
> > 	# hostssl    DATABASE  USER  CIDR-ADDRESS  METHOD  [OPTION]
> > 	# hostnossl  DATABASE  USER  CIDR-ADDRESS  METHOD  [OPTION]
> >
> > These are all for TCP connections.  How do we handle 'local' SSL
> > connection specification?  Do we want to provide similar functionality
> > for local connections?
> 
> Yes, we might want to add that as well.  That and some documentation updates 
> would probably cover everything.

OK.  Right now the documentation about spoofing says to use directory
permissions for the socket, and that works.  I am thinking this is
something for 8.4.

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