Not sure what to do with this. Our authentication options are already
pretty complicated, and I hate to add a new one that no one is really
sure about its portability or usefulness.
> [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.
>
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