Re: [HACKERS] pgsql/php3/apache authentication - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] pgsql/php3/apache authentication
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.02A.10004271000510.23225-100000@Duva.DoCS.UU.SE
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In response to pgsql/php3/apache authentication  (Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] pgsql/php3/apache authentication
Re: [HACKERS] pgsql/php3/apache authentication
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Jim Mercer wrote:

> - queries via localhost (unix domain sockets) should assume that the pg_user
> is the same as the unix user running the process.

There's no way for the server to determine the system user name of the
other end of a domain socket; at least no one has implemented one yet. So
essentially this isn't going to work.


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