"Matt Block" wrote:
>Believe Debian sid does.
Not any more. It uses Unix socket authentication by default. Originally
Debian installed as "local all trust"; later I switched to using TCP/IP
and ident, but people objected because of the perceived insecurity of
identd, which they did not want running on their machines. So then I
switched to Unix socket authentication.
...>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
>[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
>Note that locking down the unix socket is little help if one is using a
>startup script that helpfully supplies -i by default. I am not sure
>what the score is with all the startup scripts that are in various RPMs
>and other platform-specific distributions; does anyone know if there are
>any that ship with -i enabled?
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