On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Zeugswetter Andreas SEV wrote:
> > speaking. The one
> > feature the createuser script has over the CREATE USER "SQL"
> > command is
> > that you can pick your system ID. Ignoring the question whether or not
> > this has any real purpose, it seems this is almost like
> > rolling dice since
>
> The sysid is essential for one of the authentication methods available in
> PostgreSQL
> (was it ident, I forgot) where the unix system password was used.
Can't be ident, since I am running it with differing user ids. Perhaps
some odd usage of password authentication, but I don't use that too much.
Hence, can anyone comment on this?
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Peter Eisentraut Sernanders vaeg 10:115
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