[postmodern-devel] Authentication

Hi all,

It seems it is not possible to connect to a local postgres server using the 'ident sameuser' authentication method - the two functions 'connect' and 'connect-toplevel' both require user and password arguments.

I thought perhaps passing empty strings as user and password arguments might be the way to say "use the ident sameuser method" but alas, it raises the error:

"Database error 28000: no PostgreSQL user name specified in startup packet"

Perhaps this is a feature that is lacking, or am I missing something?

Regards,

Sebastian

P.S. Apologies if this is a FAQ. A Gmane search of this list for 'ident sameuser' returned no results.