Re: ident client authentication

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Paul Hide <paul(dot)hide(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ident client authentication
Date: 2005-11-08 17:46:58
Message-ID: 4370E492.9050101@archonet.com
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Paul Hide wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Is this right then? For ident to work could I, as Bruno Wolff III suggested,
> map the apache user to jim using pg_ident.
>
> I suppose if I do that it might be rather risky from a security point of
> view. Since any script running would then run as jim.

Or *could* run as jim.

> Perhaps I shoulkd do as you suggested and use password authentication.

That would be my choice.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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