Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There is no such authentication type as "peer".
> Hmm, seems to be a bug in the Debian package.
>> From /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf:
> # peer: Authentication is done as for ident, but by obtaining user
> # identification from the Unix socket credentials. (This
> # service is only supported by a few operating systems. If
> # it is not usable in a particular implementation, use of
> # this method will cause an error.) Username mapping is
> # exactly the same as for ident.
Where did that come from? There is certainly no such thing in any
official Postgres release. Is Debian shipping locally-modified
Postgres? If so I think they need to label it as such.
regards, tom lane