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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: "peer" authentication: cannot make "pg_ident.conf" work as I believe that the doc says that it s
From:       Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver () aklaver ! com>
Date:       2022-10-30 16:22:53
Message-ID: 1d2c7784-66c1-34a3-1fbb-c5f2012b4d83 () aklaver ! com
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On 10/30/22 09:16, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Am Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 09:15:08PM -0700 schrieb Adrian Klaver:
> 
>>>     *# MAPNAME    SYSTEM-USERNAME   PG-USERNAME*
>>>     *# -------    ---------------   -----------
>>>        bllewell   mary              mary
>>>     *
>>>
>>>
>>> As has been said numerous times, it is utterly pointless to define a mapping like this
>>> - you get mary-is-mary for free just by saying peer.
> 
> It certainly is but he probably did it just to check whether
> anything changes when another code path is run (the mapping)
> while the previously-working result (= successful login)
> should not change (mary is still mary). despite the
> additional code path.

Except the mapping was never in play as the map was not specified in 
ph_hba.conf.

> 
> It seems to be a way of bisecting in order to verify/falsify
> assumptions in his mental model.
> 
> Karsten
> --
> GPG  40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6  5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B
> 
> 

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com



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