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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Murray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com>
Cc: Jeroen T. Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Embedding postgresql in my application
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:43:10 -0600
Message-ID: <20061220224310.GA10755@wolff.to> (raw)
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 16:36:53 +0100,
  Murray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 13:16 +0700, Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
> > f your application
> > can run under many different user identities and each should have its
> > own
> > database user, use "ident sameuser"
> 
> I believe that ident authentication requires an additional service such
> as gidentd. Well, I think that's been my experience in the past.

If your running on a unix like machine that supports something like getpeername
and using domain sockets then you wouldn't need to set up a separate process
to do this. In the Windows world I think you are stuck.



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