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

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZMX3FvHnnXcuiTTuh=6WY2uW6=QmRWkkNdUwD1T5Zh6g@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> I don't necessarily object to this idea, but I do think we need to ensure
> that we don't allow both trust and peer to be disabled (which means on
> Windows you would not be able to disable trust). Otherwise this becomes a
> footgun which would require the whole server to be stopped so you could
> connect in single user mode to correct certain mistakes, which are
> unfortunately all too common.

Of course that's precisely what the OP wanted to do, which goes to my
point that not everybody's going to want the same thing.

-- 
Robert Haas
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