Re: [HACKERS] Solaris ident authentication using unix domain sockets

Garick Hamlin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 02:01:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Garick Hamlin <ghamlin(at)isc(dot)upenn(dot)edu> writes:
> > > I have a patch that I have been using to support postgresql's
> > > notion of ident authentication when using unix domain sockets on
> > > Solaris. This patch basically just adds support for using
> > > getupeercred() on Solaris so unix sockets and ident auth works just
> > > like it does on Linux and elsewhere.
> >
> > Cool.
> >
> > > + #if defined(HAVE_GETPEERUCRED)
> > > + #include <ucred.h>
> > > + #endif
> >
> > But this is not cool. There might be systems out there that have
> > getpeerucred() but not <ucred.h>, and this coding would cause a compile
> > failure (even if they actually wouldn't be trying to use getpeerucred()
> > because they have some other way to do it). You need an explicit
> > configure probe for the header file too, I think.
> Ok, I can fix that.

Garick, have you made any progress on an updated patch?

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