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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option
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Msg-id 20150518200041.GT2523@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:32:23PM +0200, Volker Aßmann wrote:

> > But I like the more general approach proposed by Alvaro, so in case this patch
> > would have a chance to not be immediately rejected, I would try to implement
> > the more generic approach. I would also include a check to ensure at least one
> > reasonably secure way for password recovery is available. For Unix systems
> > "peer" authentication seems to be a good candidate.
> 
> Likely to be rejected.

Why?

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