Re: [cgiapp] Newbie config question, mySQL, Sessions (again)

[William McKee <suppressed>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:24:56AM -0700, Darin McBride wrote:
> I started wondering why I hadn't worried about this before.  Then I
> realised ... it's one of the benefits of OS-based authentication as
> opposed to DB-managed authentication.

I believe that PostgreSQL can do this kind of authentication as well
using 'trust' and a properly configured socket file (see 6.2
Authentication methods[1]). I have not considered using this method;
thanks for the idea!

William

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/auth-methods.html

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