> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > It's not that it's "okay", it's that we haven't got any good
> > alternatives. Password auth sucks from a convenience point of view
> > (or even from a possibility point of view, for scripts; don't forget
> > the changes that you yourself recently applied to guarantee that a
> > script *cannot* supply a password to psql). Ident auth doesn't work,
> > or isn't secure, in a lot of cases. Kerberos, well, not a lot to
> > offer there either. What else do you want to make the default?
>
> unix_socket_permissions = 0700
Interesting.
This means only the super-user can connect. Hmm, seems like an
interesting idea. You have to _open_ up the database to other users on
your local system. If you are running a server, you are the only person
so there is no downside.
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