On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@opengroupware.us> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:18 -0600, Peter Koczan wrote: >> I found the packages. I'm still confused why local ident >> authentication works even without a running ident server, though. Does >> anyone know why that is? > > Does "local" really use ident? I always assumed local-ident was just > aliased to an NSS call. > > Seriously, ident is dead, obsolete, and insecure tech. You are best > just not using it.
I was just considering it as one possibility for a limited purpose, and after reading up I'm going to try something else. > If by "local ident" you mean "when connecting thru unix-domain sockets" then > read here: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auth-methods.html#AEN28519 Yep, that's what I meant. Thanks for the info. Thanks again, Peter -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
