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From: Craig Ringer <[email protected]>
To: James Cassell <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Yum Package List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Can we stop defaulting to 'ident'?
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 08:07:45 +0800
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On Wed, 20 May 2020, 07:29 James Cassell, <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> I'm still using ident authentication quite successfully on Fedora and
> RHEL. (authd package)
>

You still can.

This just changes the default. Right now our default doesn't actually work
without extra packages the user must discover and configure, which is just
silly.

So +lots from me on this change.


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