Subject: [bug#36191] [PATCH] gnu: postgres service: More secure default permissions.

From: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 23:25:31 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Robert Vollmert <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> This changes to 'peer' authentication for local socket connections,
>> and password-based authentication for local network connections.
>>
>> * gnu/services/databases.scm (%default-postgres-hba): Change
>> authentication method.
>
> That sounds reasonable to me.  Chris, WDYT?

I'm definitely no authority on PostgreSQL authentication, but this
sounds sensible to me.