Re: Adding encrypted identd authetification - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Adding encrypted identd authetification
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Msg-id 20875.1024679989@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Adding encrypted identd authetification  ("David M. Kaplan" <dmkaplan@ucdavis.edu>)
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"David M. Kaplan" <dmkaplan@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> I am about to add code to postgresql that would allow IDENT
> authentification with DES encryption (as seen in the pidentd package
> included with Redhat - not sure if same encryption is used by other
> ident daemons).

What's the point, exactly?

For local connections, you do not need encryption, and for remote
connections it's sheer folly to use IDENT anyway.  So I'm having a
hard time identifying the space of applicability...
        regards, tom lane


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