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Better document use of ident on localhost, per Tom Lane's idea.

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Bruce Momjian
2001-07-11 20:32:11 +00:00
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<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.11 2001/05/12 22:51:34 petere Exp $ -->
<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.12 2001/07/11 20:32:10 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="client-authentication">
<title>Client Authentication</title>
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of the connecting user. <productname>Postgres</productname>
then verifies whether the so identified operating system user
is allowed to connect as the database user that is requested.
This is only available for TCP/IP connections.
This is only available for TCP/IP connections. It can be used
on the local machine by specifying the localhost address 127.0.0.1.
</para>
<para>
The <replaceable>authentication option</replaceable> following
the <literal>ident</> keyword specifies the name of an
<firstterm>ident map</firstterm> that specifies which operating
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<attribution>RFC 1413</attribution>
<para>
The Identification Protocol is not intended as an authorization
or access control protocol.
or access control protocol. You must trust the machine running the
ident server.
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>