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From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 20A5D273-70AB-4F26-B649-431495429348@decibel.org
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In response to Re: Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Jun 19, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> I know there's issues with using ident sameuser via TCP, but what
>> about for filesystem socket connections?
>
> Not all OSes support ident ... Solaris and OpenBSD for two, don't,  
> because
> they see ident as insecure.

What about the unix domain socket, though? AFAIK that doesn't rely on  
ident but some other method...
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Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
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