On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:01:40 +0000, Jon Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's true, but that doesn't satisfy the need. I want an automated > process running as OS user "postgres" to authenticate with ident, but I'd > also like to be able have, say, phpPgAdmin (running as user "apache") > connect as Pg user "postgres" via the UNIX socket using an MD5 password. > There's currently no way to do both AFAICT. I can create another superuser > with a different name so each user has different pg_hba settings, but > that's about it.
You can treat domain socket and internet socket connections differently. This is still a kludge but might solve your particular problem. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly