Jim, > I know there's issues with using ident sameuser via TCP, but what > about for filesystem socket connections?
Not all OSes support ident ... Solaris and OpenBSD for two, don't, because they see ident as insecure. We switched the default to "trust localhost only" after many, many complaints by newbies that they had installed PostgreSQL but couldn't log into it. Other than maybe putting more emphasis on setting up the superuser password in the tutorial, I really don't think that we should change the behavior. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly