Re: Problem w/ IDENT authentication

On 26/07/2004 09:53 Ian Pilcher wrote:
> I am trying to set up IDENT authentication for Tomcat 5 on my Fedora
> Core 2 system.  I've added the appropriate line to pg_hba.conf:
>
> host    tomcat4 tomcat4 127.0.0.1       255.255.255.255 ident   sameuser
>
> This works as expected from a console:

that's because you're connecting via tcp/ip sockets from Tomcat and unix
domain sockets from psql. Personally, I find md5 + firewall more than
sufficient.

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