Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option
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Msg-id 20150507190049.GE27644@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option  (Volker Aßmann <volker.assmann@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, May  7, 2015 at 11:53:21AM +0200, Volker Aßmann wrote:
> Yes in fact, it would be a way for organizations distributing their own
> PostgreSQL packages to enforce authentication restrictions within the package
> instead of having to educate all users about the options.
>  
> 
>     I don't necessarily agree with the patch as proposed.  I would rather
>     have a comma-separated list of methods, as in:
> 
>         --disable-auth=ident,peer

Why don't they just apply a source code patch before compiling? 
Configure seems like an odd place for this.

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