Tom Lane wrote:
> John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> writes:
>
>> *HOWEVER* "ident sameuser" should *not* be used for HOST connections,
>> its only reliable for LOCAL connections.
>>
>
> A more accurate statement is that it's trustworthy to the extent that
> you trust the owner of the other machine to be running a non-broken
> identd daemon. Within a LAN it might be perfectly reasonable to use.
>
you would have to extend that trust to any machine connected to any
network which can be routed to the server in question as he was
specifying a wildcard IP, and that includes anything that anyone could
plug into any network port.
no thanks.