John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> writes:
> *HOWEVER* "ident sameuser" should *not* be used for HOST connections,
> its only reliable for LOCAL connections.
A more accurate statement is that it's trustworthy to the extent that
you trust the owner of the other machine to be running a non-broken
identd daemon. Within a LAN it might be perfectly reasonable to use.
regards, tom lane
