Re: [HACKERS] ident auth vs. encrypting ident daemons

2006-06-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: * I'm inclined to make the Red Hat RPMs default to ident on socket and md5 on localhost ... any comments about that? I typically use something like this on RH platforms and friends for the system db cluster: local all postgres ident sameuser local all all md5 host all

Re: [HACKERS] [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] ident auth vs. encrypting ident daemons

2006-06-15 Thread Olivier Thauvin
Le jeudi 15 juin 2006 22:29, Tom Lane a écrit : > Currently, the Red Hat and (I believe) PGDG RPMs set up ident > authentication as the default, by running initdb with > --auth='ident sameuser' > I think several other binary distros do the same. Just to notice Mandriva still provide postgr

[HACKERS] ident auth vs. encrypting ident daemons

2006-06-15 Thread Tom Lane
Currently, the Red Hat and (I believe) PGDG RPMs set up ident authentication as the default, by running initdb with --auth='ident sameuser' I think several other binary distros do the same. It was pointed out to me recently that this does not work real well anymore on Fedora. It's fine on