Re: postgres-user <-> unix user

Tomas B. Winkler writes:

> I would like to allow any user which has an unix account in our system to
> be able to connect a DB. Can be postgres configured that an unix user
> become automatically also a postgres user ? I can figure out some ways
> to do it yet I'm looking for the most transparent one.
> Thanks a lot.

Use ident authentication with a map name of "sameuser". See the
documentation in the file pg_hba.conf.

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