Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option
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Msg-id 6837.1430946793@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> (Personally I think there's a very good case for completely ripping out 
> RFC1413 ident auth. I've not seen it used in a great long while, and 
> it's always been a security risk.)

FWIW, I agree with that --- or at least making it a not-built-by-default
option.

Probably the right time to make any such changes is at the same time
we add the proposed more-secure-than-MD5 password option.
        regards, tom lane



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