On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 22:43:53 -0400,
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> wrote:
>
>Of course PHP scripts have to run as nobody so I have no choice other
>than to have them store passwords in various config.php files but PHP
>users are used to that. I would like to fix that but that's a war for
>another day.
You can use peer authentication if the php scripts run on the same machine
as the database, though you'd probably want to use a different local user
than 'nobody' to run under.