Not too worried about nefarious id faking in this environment. How does one use "identd" in an unobscured way? -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Lane Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 11:55 AM To: Alan Hodgson Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Need linux uid in pg-psql Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On August 19, 2011 07:01:33 AM Gauthier, Dave wrote: >> Is there a way to get the linux idsid of a user, even for a remote network >> connection? > There's an identd protocol for this. It's not commonly used anymore, and when > present tends to deliberately obscure the results. Not to mention that it's trivially faked, if the user has root on his own machine. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
