Re: Add another AUTHTYPE for UNIX-domain connections

Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> writes:
> On some platforms, it is possible to reliably determine the effective
> credentials of a UNIX-domain peer.

Umm ... I think this is in 7.2 already, although not using getpeereid.

Anyone have an idea whether there are platforms that have getpeereid but
not SO_PEERCRED or SCM_CREDS?  If so it might be worth adding getpeereid
as an alternate implementation in ident_unix().

            regards, tom lane