| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu(at)netbsd(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: password method in pg_hba.conf fails |
| Date: | 2003-03-07 20:27:28 |
| Message-ID: | 200303072027.h27KRSv21375@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > If your OS supports it, you might also want to consider using
> > Unix-socket-IDENT authentication, and forget passwords altogether.
>
> Most of the story is going on through httpd, so this won't help, the
> user is www, whatever the real user is.
>
> However, last time I checked, UNIX socket ident was not available on
> NetBSD. I'll really have to add support for this some day.
It has been available for NetBSD since 7.2. OpenBSD is only added in 7.4.
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