"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> writes:
> Real hassle. This could be what I am looking for. phpPgAdmin
> is running on the same machine, should I just tell it to use the "public"
> address instead of localhost so that authentication is still required for it
> (without trying to use ident)?
Sure, that would work, or use Unix-socket connection that way. (BTW,
the reason ident doesn't work for Unix sockets is that standard IDENT
daemons only know how to get the info for IP-based connections. Too
bad...)
regards, tom lane