Re: Security choices...

At 18:34 4/08/00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>> Philip Warner writes:
>>
>> > Is there any reason that a security model does not exist for psql that
>> > allows Unix user 'fred' to log in as PG user 'fred' with no password etc,
>> > but any user trying to log on as someone other than themselves has to
>> > provide a password?
>>
>> Short of someone sitting down and making it happen I don't see any. You'd
>> only need to implement some sort of fall-through in `pg_hba.conf', which
>> in my estimate can't be exceedingly hard.
>
>How do you know Fred is Fred without a password?
>

The idea was to apply only on the matchine on which the postmaster runs;
then ideally you get the username of the client process. It's kind of like
IDENT, except it works only for local connections, and asks for passwords
for non-local connections.

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