| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | Jon Jensen <jon(at)endpoint(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Authentication drop-down? |
| Date: | 2004-03-19 02:43:16 |
| Message-ID: | 20040319024316.GA15052@wolff.to |
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:01:40 +0000,
Jon Jensen <jon(at)endpoint(dot)com> wrote:
>
> That's true, but that doesn't satisfy the need. I want an automated
> process running as OS user "postgres" to authenticate with ident, but I'd
> also like to be able have, say, phpPgAdmin (running as user "apache")
> connect as Pg user "postgres" via the UNIX socket using an MD5 password.
> There's currently no way to do both AFAICT. I can create another superuser
> with a different name so each user has different pg_hba settings, but
> that's about it.
You can treat domain socket and internet socket connections differently.
This is still a kludge but might solve your particular problem.
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