Re: Postgres in bash-mode

David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>

From: David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>
To: Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop@range.infoplease.com>
Cc: Maarten.Boekhold@reuters.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pucher@atlas.gis.univie.ac.at
Date: 2002-01-13T11:43:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 06:41:06AM -0500, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> Basically, you can trust identd if and only if you know that its your
> identd. But with identd, you can have a large number of scripts that
> continue to work after you change the password. (Note that you cannot
> use identd on the ub=nix socket).
> 
> We are presently revamping our own security. If I had a good example of
> a system in a final state, I'd post it. I don't know, but maybe someone
> else can. Or maybe in a few weeks I'll post ours, if I can assure myself
> that disclosure won't reduce scurity (iff well designed, that should be
> the case, I think). 

7.2 can run something like ident but better (guaranteed accurate) on 
the unix socket on BSD and linux.

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