On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 16:36:53 +0100, Murray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 13:16 +0700, Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
> > f your application
> > can run under many different user identities and each should have its
> > own
> > database user, use "ident sameuser"
>
> I believe that ident authentication requires an additional service such
> as gidentd. Well, I think that's been my experience in the past.
If your running on a unix like machine that supports something like getpeername
and using domain sockets then you wouldn't need to set up a separate process
to do this. In the Windows world I think you are stuck.
