| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, nicolas(at)marchildon(dot)net, Bugs for PostgreSQL <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #8139: initdb: Misleading error message when current user not in /etc/passwd |
| Date: | 2014-03-28 14:33:48 |
| Message-ID: | 20140328143348.GB18523@momjian.us |
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:31:06AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de> writes:
> > the quoted code bit above in src/backend/libpq/auth.c is utterly
> > broken: for peer authentication, it uses get_user_name(), which yields
> > the *server* user name, not the client's. For that reason, peer
> > authentication in 9.4devel is broken - you can't log in with your user
> > name, but you can just say -U postgres (or what the initdb user was),
> > and it will let you in.
>
> > The attached patch reverts the src/backend/libpq/auth.c portion of
> > 613c6d26bd42dd8c2dd0664315be9551475b8864 and fixes peer auth.
>
> Applied, thanks!
I guess I should have said I was working on an updated patch. I will
merge my changes in.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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