Re: Ident authentication failed - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter J. Holzer
Subject Re: Ident authentication failed
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Msg-id 20200329232109.GB11265@hjp.at
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In response to Re: Ident authentication failed  (Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>)
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On 2020-03-26 21:33:51 +0100, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> ## Ted To (ted@theo.to):
> > Thank you -- I added two lines to the hba file to allow for ident
> > authentication, restarted postgres and still the same errors.
>
> You probably don't want "ident" authentication - that's the thing
> with "identd" (see RfC 1413),

Depends on the type of socket. For unix sockets it's the same as peer
authentication.

> which even 20 years ago was only used in connection with IRC, but not
> really for "authentication".

I don't think there are any linux distributions which install identd by
default any more, so it wouldn't work anyway.


> You'd rather want "scram-sha-256" as the authentication method (hoping
> that whatever-go-uses can do that - come on, we got that in version 10),
> or (if that's not possible) "md5".

Actually, for local connections I prefer "peer". I'm already
authenticated by the OS, no need for a (second) password.

I should add that you shouldn't use "trust" unless
* no connection from other hosts is allowed, and
* all users on this host should have full access anyway.
This is rarely the case.

        hp

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