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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Add another AUTHTYPE for UNIX-domain connections
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Msg-id 5686.1007342748@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Add another AUTHTYPE for UNIX-domain connections  (Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>)
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Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> writes:
> On some platforms, it is possible to reliably determine the effective
> credentials of a UNIX-domain peer.

Umm ... I think this is in 7.2 already, although not using getpeereid.

Anyone have an idea whether there are platforms that have getpeereid but
not SO_PEERCRED or SCM_CREDS?  If so it might be worth adding getpeereid
as an alternate implementation in ident_unix().

            regards, tom lane

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