Re: Enable user access from remote host

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
Cc: Piotre Ugrumov <afmulone(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Enable user access from remote host
Date: 2009-03-08 23:32:52
Message-ID: 5669.1236555172@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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.

regards, tom lane

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