On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Alan Hodgson <ahodg...@simkin.ca> wrote: > 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? >> >> I could write a pg-perlu to get this, but I suspect it won't give me the >> original user when there's a remote connect. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions ! > > There's an identd protocol for this. It's not commonly used anymore, and when > present tends to deliberately obscure the results. > Couldn't you use client ssl certs for authentication and encode the data there in the cert?
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