| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Indent authentication overloading |
| Date: | 2010-11-18 18:47:05 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTimbGBEBwsbRAvJKssTMGqWG-sXAWiXCOaqr_vh-@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 19:41, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>> I thought the proposal on the table was to add "peer" (or some other
>>> name) to refer to the unix-socket auth method, and use that term
>>> preferentially in the docs, while continuing to accept "ident" as an
>>> old name for it. Is that really too confusing?
>
> What about the pg_ident file? Are we going to rename it? Are we
We should've done that long ago - it's already used for things that
aren't ident. If anything, it should be pg_usermap.conf.
> (better) going to have separate files for pg_peer and pg_ident?
Why? It already supports multiple maps...
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Magnus Hagander
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