Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 17:28, arifin purba wrote:
>> "Peer authentication failed for user 'johndoe'"
> Unfortunately, I can't at the moment think of any reason why it should
> behave differently when passed though the Perl interface.
But it wasn't the Perl interface that was the issue; it was CGI.
I will bet that his CGI environment runs as some other user than he is,
and so the peer mechanism is doing exactly what it's supposed to do:
rejecting a false claim to be PG user so-and-so when the OS knows the
client process is owned by someone else.
regards, tom lane