X-Original-To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Received: from spampd.localdomain (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DBA474E4F for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 14:20:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mx2.eskimo.com (mx2.eskimo.com [204.122.16.49]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C8F47648C for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 14:20:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from eskimo.com (root@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx2.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04619; Wed, 7 May 2003 11:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (johnnyb@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA04168; Wed, 7 May 2003 11:16:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eskimo.com: johnnyb owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 11:16:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Bartlett To: Jon Earle Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Qs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-16.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,IN_REP_TO,USER_AGENT_PINE,X_AUTH_WARNING autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) X-Archive-Number: 200305/208 X-Sequence-Number: 41863 Don't have time to really answer your question, except to say that there's nothing wrong with AUTH_TYPE of trust. If the machine is a trusted machine, then anyone who breaks in will likely be able to read the username/password from a config file anyway. I usually run Postgres on a UNIX-domain socket only, with AUTH_TYPE being trust. Jon