Re: Add another AUTHTYPE for UNIX-domain connections - Mailing list pgsql-patches

On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:25:48PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> writes:
> > On some platforms, it is possible to reliably determine the effective
> > credentials of a UNIX-domain peer.
>
> Umm ... I think this is in 7.2 already, although not using getpeereid.

Oops.  :-)
>
> Anyone have an idea whether there are platforms that have getpeereid but
> not SO_PEERCRED or SCM_CREDS?  If so it might be worth adding getpeereid
> as an alternate implementation in ident_unix().

Yes.  From FreeBSD's getpeereid(2) manpage:

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
    On FreeBSD, getpeereid() is implemented in terms of the
    LOCAL_PEERCRED unix(4) socket option.

Cheers,
+Anton.
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