Re: Ident authentication is not supported on local connections

wespvp(at)syntegra(dot)com wrote:
> I'm running PostgreSQL 7.4.1 and trying to use an application on Solaris
> that relies on "ident sameuser". In the postgres log I get:
>
> "Ident authentication is not supported on local connections on this
> platform"
>
> The only thread I could find on this seems to indicate a patch was put in
> way back at 7.1.2.
>
> Is there a way to get this to work on Solaris?

It can be added if you tell us how you can find out who is the user on
the other end of a unix domain socket. See src/backend/libpq/auth.h and
hba.c and look for mentions of CRED to see how other platforms do it.
It is usually some system call like get/setsockopt().

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