| From: | Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> |
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| To: | Karsten Hilbert <Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: "peer" authentication: cannot make "pg_ident.conf" work as I believe that the doc says that it should |
| Date: | 2022-10-30 16:22:53 |
| Message-ID: | 1d2c7784-66c1-34a3-1fbb-c5f2012b4d83@aklaver.com |
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On 10/30/22 09:16, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Am Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 09:15:08PM -0700 schrieb Adrian Klaver:
>
>>> *# MAPNAME SYSTEM-USERNAME PG-USERNAME*
>>> *# ------- --------------- -----------
>>> bllewell mary mary
>>> *
>>>
>>>
>>> As has been said numerous times, it is utterly pointless to define a mapping like this
>>> - you get mary-is-mary for free just by saying peer.
>
> It certainly is but he probably did it just to check whether
> anything changes when another code path is run (the mapping)
> while the previously-working result (= successful login)
> should not change (mary is still mary). despite the
> additional code path.
Except the mapping was never in play as the map was not specified in
ph_hba.conf.
>
> It seems to be a way of bisecting in order to verify/falsify
> assumptions in his mental model.
>
> Karsten
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>
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