"David M. Kaplan" <dmkaplan@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> I am about to add code to postgresql that would allow IDENT
> authentification with DES encryption (as seen in the pidentd package
> included with Redhat - not sure if same encryption is used by other
> ident daemons).
What's the point, exactly?
For local connections, you do not need encryption, and for remote
connections it's sheer folly to use IDENT anyway. So I'm having a
hard time identifying the space of applicability...
regards, tom lane