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: [PATCHES] Allow IDENT authentication on local connections (Linux only)
Date: 2001-07-31 21:53:05
Message-ID: 200107312153.f6VLr5810540@candle.pha.pa.us
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> "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > This change has only been made in the unstable release; so I don't mind
> > if peer and ident are folded together. Anyone running unstable knows
> > the world may turn upside down beneath him!
>
> > So if you have a patch to do that, go ahead.
>
> Sounds great. Helge, the main things your patch was missing were
> autoconf support and documentation fixes. Do you want to add those
> (possibly stealing liberally from the Debian patches) and resubmit?
>
> BTW, Bruce has recently committed some wholesale changes in hba.c, so a
> patch against 7.1.2 likely won't apply cleanly. If you could do your
> patch as a diff against CVS tip, it'd ease applying it.

I can merge into hba.conf if needed.

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