[apologies if this appears twice; I thought I had sent it but it hasn't
appeared anywhere]
The attached patch implements a method of connection authentication for
Unix sockets that support SCM_CREDENTIALS. This includes Linux kernels
2.2 and 2.4 at least; I don't know what other implementations support
it.
Since it is not universally supported, I have included a configure test.
autoconf needs to be run after installing the patch.
This patch provides a new authentication method "peer" for use with
"local" connections; otherwise it works exactly like the "ident" method.
Please consider including this in PostgreSQL.
Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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