Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: BSD Authentication support

2016-03-18 Thread Marisa Emerson
>Our usual wording is "the PostgreSQL user account". Perhaps we should >be more explicit about the fact that membership of this Unix group is >needed on *OpenBSD*, since other current or future BSD forks could >vary. I see that the specific reason this is needed on this OpenBSD >5.8 box is so

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: BSD Authentication support

2016-01-11 Thread Marisa Emerson
I've attached the latest version of this patch. I've fixed up an issue with the configuration scripts that I missed. On 08/01/16 12:40, Marisa Emerson wrote: There's a port for PAM, but we would prefer to use BSD Auth as its quite a lot cleaner and is standard on OpenBSD. I

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: BSD Authentication support

2016-01-07 Thread Marisa Emerson
There's a port for PAM, but we would prefer to use BSD Auth as its quite a lot cleaner and is standard on OpenBSD. I've attached an updated patch that includes documentation. It has been tested against OpenBSD 5.8. I'll add this thread to the commitfest. On 07/01/16 23:26, Greg Stark wrote: