On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:50:25AM +0000, Jasen Betts wrote:
> by the default authentication for unix domain sockets is "ident" which
> (AIUI) requires the caller have the a unix username that matches their
> postgres username, but you can change that to "md5" (password based)
> or "trust" (no authentication) in pg_hba.conf
With ident auth you can also specify a mapping file, which lists which
UNIX users can connect as which postgresql users without password. An
extremely useful feature.
Have a nice day,
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