From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "J(dot)H(dot)M(dot) Dassen (Ray)" <jdassen(at)cistron-office(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Re: Debian's PostgreSQL packages |
Date: | 2001-07-12 03:48:42 |
Message-ID: | 200107120348.f6C3mg320253@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> The security issue is why I developed it. There were complaints from people
> who did not want to have identd running at all.
>
> I think the feature is available in Linux, Solaris and some BSD. It can be
> tested for by whether SO_PEERCRED is defined in sys/socket.h.
Yes, I see something similar in BSD/OS. Manual page attached.
>
> I don't see the need to strip mention from the comments in pg_hba.conf. The
> situation is no different from those systems which do not have Kerberos or
> SSL available.
Yea, I guess.
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