Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Volker Aßmann <volker(dot)assmann(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option
Date: 2015-05-18 20:00:41
Message-ID: 20150518200041.GT2523@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:32:23PM +0200, Volker Aßmann wrote:

> > But I like the more general approach proposed by Alvaro, so in case this patch
> > would have a chance to not be immediately rejected, I would try to implement
> > the more generic approach. I would also include a check to ensure at least one
> > reasonably secure way for password recovery is available. For Unix systems
> > "peer" authentication seems to be a good candidate.
>
> Likely to be rejected.

Why?

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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