Re: ident authentication with named localhost

Tom Lane wrote:
> David Link <dlink(at)soundscan(dot)com> writes:
>
>> Does anyone know how I can test ident?
>>
>
> I'd try sniffing the IP traffic to and from it with a packet sniffer
> and/or tracing the daemon's system calls with strace. Manually invoking
> the daemon isn't going to prove a lot, you want to watch its reaction
> to Postgres.
>
Thanks for your suggestion. I'm new to the concept of packet sniffing
and tracing. Can you suggest where I should go or what I should read to
better understand this?
> I believe some flavors of identd have debug tracing options, too
> ... check the man page ...
>
Too bad no one else has reported this and already found an answer.
Maybe I should move to md5 authentication, however I wanted to avoid
having to type passwords.

Thanks,