Re: ident inconsistency

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ident inconsistency
Date: 2003-01-04 03:15:08
Message-ID: 20030104031508.GA1579@wolff.to
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 23:49:43 -0500,
Ron Peterson <rpeterso(at)mtholyoke(dot)edu> wrote:
> ident authentication appears to work inconsistently between debian
> stable (7.2.1) and the 7.2.3 postgresql I installed from source on a Red
> Hat 7.3 machine.
>
> Debian doesn't require I run an ident server. My pg_hba.conf contains:
>
> local all ident sameuser

The above uses domain sockets for connecting to the database and
getpeereuid is used to identify who is connecting.

>
> On the installation I compiled myself, that doesn't work. Instead I
> must run an ident server, and do:
>
> host all 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 ident sameuser

The above uses the loopback interface and an ident server to obtain
who is connecting.

Both forms should be usable on either system.

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