Thread: postgres 8.3 & ident authentication
Hello all,
I have recently installed postgres 8.3 and I was slightly thrown by the default authentication as set in pg_hba.conf
It appears that ident authentication is the default and not trust authentication. Has this changed between versions or has it always been this way?
Any illumination of this point would be appreciated!
Cheerio,
Nic Hemley
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"Nicholas Hemley" <nic.hemley@sidonis.com> writes:
> It appears that ident authentication is the default and not trust
> authentication. Has this changed between versions or has it always been this
> way?
No, the out-of-the-box default hasn't changed. However some packagers
(Red Hat for instance) make the default be ident. Maybe you switched
to a different packaging than you used before?
Whatever you're using, it's easy enough to change...
regards, tom lane