> Tom Lane writes:
> 
> > Well, we need to talk about that.  I like your idea of making ident auth
> > "just work" on local connections better than Oliver's approach of
> > inventing a separate auth-type keyword.
> 
> This is exactly what I would not like to see.  "ident" defines a specific
> protocol, with an ident server.  ident over something not TCP/IP doesn't
> make sense, it could confuse admins.  Just because it works similar
> doesn't mean it is the same.  In particular, the security issues are
> completely different.

Peter has a point here.  The only way to save the 'ident' keyword is to
make it mean 'auto-identify' rather than identd.

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