Re: ident auth vs. encrypting ident daemons

Tom Lane wrote:

>* I'm inclined to make the Red Hat RPMs default to ident on socket and
>md5 on localhost ... any comments about that?
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I typically use something like this on RH platforms and friends for the 
system db cluster:

local all postgres ident sameuser
local all all md5
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5

Not using ident on tcp connections would be a good thing.

I think an extra initdb switch is probably warranted.

cheers

andrew