| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>, "rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com" <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz" <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, "sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Expose port->authn_id to extensions and triggers |
| Date: | 2022-03-02 08:18:17 |
| Message-ID: | 98e600a9-77c3-970a-93df-fbd19b54c7cd@enterprisedb.com |
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On 01.03.22 23:05, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-03-01 at 19:56 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> This patch contains no documentation. I'm having a hard time
>> understanding what the name "session_authn_id" is supposed to convey.
>> The comment for the Port.authn_id field says this is the "system
>> username", which sounds like a clearer terminology.
>
> "System username" may help from an internal development perspective,
> especially as it relates to pg_ident.conf, but I don't think that's
> likely to be a useful descriptor to an end user. (I don't think of a
> client certificate's Subject Distinguished Name as a "system
> username".) Does my attempt in v5 help?
Yeah, maybe there are better names. But I have no idea what the letter
combination "authn_id" is supposed to stand for. Is it an
"authentication identifier"? What does it identify? Maybe I'm missing
something here, but I don't find it clear.
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