Re: [PATCHES] Allow IDENT authentication on local connections (Linux only) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Allow IDENT authentication on local connections (Linux only)
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Msg-id 11194.996596553@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Allow IDENT authentication on local connections (Linux only)  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> ... But Oliver may feel that he has to
>> continue to support the "peer" keyword on Debian anyway, for backwards
>> compatibility.  If so, do we want different ways of doing the same thing
>> on different distros, or should we just follow the Debian precedent to
>> keep things ugly-but-consistent?

> We could easily just accept peer as a synonym for ident for a few
> releases,

Or let Oliver patch the Debian package to accept peer as a synonym for
ident.  I don't see any real need to encourage the use of that keyword
by non-Debianers...
        regards, tom lane


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