Re: initdb authentication - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: initdb authentication
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Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE34BEF7@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to initdb authentication  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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>>Ok, here is another one.
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>>Doc patches coming up if/when this one is approved.
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>>//Magnus
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>+       /* Kerberos methods not listed because they are not supported
>+        * over local connections and are rejected in hba.c */
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>Is this true of all local connections, or only Unix socket
>connections?
>After all, this patch adjusts one 'local' line and 2 'host'
>lines. Maybe
>we would just need to tell people that if they want Kerberos
>they would
>have to do it by hand, rather than using this flag.

It's true of 'local', meaning Unix socket connections.

Something along that line about kerberos should go in the docs, yes :-)

//Magnus

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