Re: Indent authentication overloading

Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl>

From: Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-18T05:21:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2010-11-18 00:14, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> If it was a matter of changing it for those who use ident over tcp, I
> really wouldn't hesitate - they're few :-) But the problem is that
> it's the ident-over-tcp that's correctly named, not the other one...

True.

By the way ISTR we don't fall back to identd for TCP connections alone. 
  I saw it documented somewhere that we also talk to identd on operating 
systems that won't tell us who's on the other end of the socket.  Are 
those still out there?


Jeroen