Re: postgres-user <-> unix user

I haven't found any documentation about pg_ident.conf file format.

Tomas Winkler
The System Group
CSE HUJI

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Tomas B. Winkler writes:
>
> > I would like to allow any user which has an unix account in our system to
> > be able to connect a DB. Can be postgres configured that an unix user
> > become automatically also a postgres user ? I can figure out some ways
> > to do it yet I'm looking for the most transparent one.
> > Thanks a lot.
>
> Use ident authentication with a map name of "sameuser". See the
> documentation in the file pg_hba.conf.
>
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