Re: Proposal: BSD Authentication support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Proposal: BSD Authentication support
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZteKUFCE=BZdc-yRzSHYg5gFz-UURng3kBqXzj9d0SMA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Proposal: BSD Authentication support  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: Proposal: BSD Authentication support  (David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>)
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On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Pierre-Emmanuel André <pea@openbsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 06:30:35PM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Marisa Emerson <mje@insec.sh> wrote:
>> > On 18/03/16 03:57, Thomas Munro wrote:
>> >>
>> >> You used one name in the docs and another in the code:
>> >>
>> >> +    BSD Authentication on PostgreSQL uses the
>> >> <literal>auth-postgres</literal>
>> >> +    login type and authenticates with the <literal>postgres</literal>
>> >> login
>> >>
>> >> + retval = auth_userokay(user, NULL, "auth-postgresql", passwd);
>> >
>> >
>> > Woops, fix attached.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> I'm CCng Pierre-Emmanuel André, maintainer of the OpenBSD postgresql
>> port/package, just in case he has any feedback.
>>
>> Pierre-Emmanuel, here's the full thread in case you missed it:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1521c2f9465.e357a543197915.6912077634413325318@insec.sh
>
> Sorry for the late answer.
> I've tested the patch on @amd64 with the latest PostgreSQL 9.6devel. I can't judge the diff
> itself (it looks good but i'm not a PostgreSQL developper) but everything works fine.
> It would be a nice feature to have on OpenBSD.

Opinion poll:

Should we commit this patch?

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Robert Haas
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