Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Volker Aßmann <volker(dot)assmann(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option
Date: 2015-05-07 19:00:49
Message-ID: 20150507190049.GE27644@momjian.us
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On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:53:21AM +0200, Volker Aßmann wrote:
> Yes in fact, it would be a way for organizations distributing their own
> PostgreSQL packages to enforce authentication restrictions within the package
> instead of having to educate all users about the options.
>  
>
> I don't necessarily agree with the patch as proposed.  I would rather
> have a comma-separated list of methods, as in:
>
>     --disable-auth=ident,peer

Why don't they just apply a source code patch before compiling?
Configure seems like an odd place for this.

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