Re: postgres wish list - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: postgres wish list
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Msg-id 20090221130412.GB1732@svana.org
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In response to Re: postgres wish list  (Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:50:25AM +0000, Jasen Betts wrote:
> by the default authentication for unix domain sockets is "ident" which
> (AIUI) requires the caller have the a unix username that matches their
> postgres username, but you can change that to "md5" (password based)
> or "trust" (no authentication) in pg_hba.conf

With ident auth you can also specify a mapping file, which lists which
UNIX users can connect as which postgresql users without password. An
extremely useful feature.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.

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