Re: Indent authentication overloading - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Indent authentication overloading
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Msg-id 26901.1290008344@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Indent authentication overloading  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Currently, we overload "indent" meaning both "unix socket
> authentication" and "ident over tcp", depending on what type of
> connection it is. This is quite unfortunate - one of them being one of
> the most secure options we have, the other one being one of the most
> *insecure* ones (really? ident over tcp? does *anybody* use that
> intentionally today?)

> Should we not consider naming those two different things?

Maybe, but it seems like the time to raise the objection was six or
eight years ago :-(.  Renaming now will do little except to introduce
even more confusion.
        regards, tom lane


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