On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:50:25AM +0000, Jasen Betts wrote: > by the default authentication for unix domain sockets is "ident" which > (AIUI) requires the caller have the a unix username that matches their > postgres username, but you can change that to "md5" (password based) > or "trust" (no authentication) in pg_hba.conf
With ident auth you can also specify a mapping file, which lists which UNIX users can connect as which postgresql users without password. An extremely useful feature. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while > boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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