| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | ghaverla(at)freenet(dot)edmonton(dot)ab(dot)ca |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: The pg_hba.conf file |
| Date: | 2002-12-19 16:53:03 |
| Message-ID: | 20021219165303.GB16992@wolff.to |
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:00:46 -0700,
ghaverla(at)freenet(dot)edmonton(dot)ab(dot)ca wrote:
>
> Since I admin the local machine, I guess I can trust myself.
> But I was looking to see that identity for the "local" connection
> has nothing to do with any ident daemon I may be running (or
> not running, which is what I would prefer).
If you use the 'local' connection it uses a domain socket and some
OS' provide a getpeerid syscall to obtain the uid of the using on the
other end of the connection.
If you use a 'host' connection to the local host then ident works using
the local machine's ident server.
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