| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andreas Tille <tillea(at)rki(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Debian PostgreSQL Liste <debian-postgresql(at)cochrane(dot)atnet(dot)at>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Authentification |
| Date: | 2001-06-22 13:44:14 |
| Message-ID: | 3302.993217454@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andreas Tille <tillea(at)rki(dot)de> writes:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There is no such authentication type as "peer".
> Hmm, seems to be a bug in the Debian package.
>> From /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf:
> # peer: Authentication is done as for ident, but by obtaining user
> # identification from the Unix socket credentials. (This
> # service is only supported by a few operating systems. If
> # it is not usable in a particular implementation, use of
> # this method will cause an error.) Username mapping is
> # exactly the same as for ident.
Where did that come from? There is certainly no such thing in any
official Postgres release. Is Debian shipping locally-modified
Postgres? If so I think they need to label it as such.
regards, tom lane
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