Re: PostgreSQL backend - Ident authentication failed?

On Monday 21 June 2010 16:21:10 Sam Lai wrote:
> >From the PGSQL docs [1],
>
> "On systems supporting SO_PEERCRED requests for Unix-domain sockets
> (currently Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, and Solaris),
> ident authentication can also be applied to local connections. In this
> case, no security risk is added by using ident authentication; indeed
> it is a preferable choice for local connections on such systems."
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auth-methods.html
>
> So it seems the postgresql people think it is ok, but I'm not sure
> once you add in Apache and things like Django on top of it.
>

I am not too sure whether connection over tcp/ip comes under 'local'
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Regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Associate
NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC

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