[plug] Debian Etch + Postgresql-8.1IDENT error

[Denis Brown]

Thanks, Mark.

Ahhhh... RTFM eh?  :-)   I could wrong but I think that (much) earlier 
from-source installations of Postgres allowed the style of thing I 
mentioned.   Since it worked, I had no incentive to dig any deeper - would 
probably have found that out-of-the-box "trust" was the default in pg_hba.conf

Kind regards,
Denis


At 01:57 PM 27/08/2008, mark at musicalstoat.co.uk wrote:
>Hi Denis,
>
>On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:39:39PM +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
><--snip-->
> > "local all postgres ident sameuser"   to which can be added...
> > "local all all ident sameuser"
> >
> > Am I misinterpreting the way ident is supposed
> > to work?
>Yes.  Read this ('ident sameuser') as 'allow to connect if the username you
>are logged on as is the same as the username you are trying to connect
>to the database as.'
>
> >
> > Admittedly a small amount of digging thus far but I've not found any
> > information - other than the suggestions to change to "trust" - on this
> > matter.
>The postresql manual explains all this.
>
>--
>Mark
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