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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In response to Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> I realize it's not going to be popular, but I'd love to have 'trust'
> only allowed if a command-line option is passed to the postmaster or
> something along those lines.  It's really got no business being an
> option for a network service like PG.

I disagree wholeheartedly.  There is such a thing as a trusted network.

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Robert Haas
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