Re: Need linux uid in pg-psql

On August 19, 2011 07:01:33 AM Gauthier, Dave wrote:
> Is there a way to get the linux idsid of a user, even for a remote network
> connection?
>
> I could write a pg-perlu to get this, but I suspect it won't give me the
> original user when there's a remote connect.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions !

There's an identd protocol for this. It's not commonly used anymore, and when
present tends to deliberately obscure the results.