Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option

Josh Berkus wrote:

> As such, proposals are more likely to be successful if the proposer can
> show how they apply to a general use case, or adapt them so that they
> are useful to a large number of our users.  This means that "this works
> in our environment which has conditions X, Y, and Z" is not an effective
> argument, unless you can follow it up with "... and here's the reason
> why [large class of users] also has conditions X, Y and Z."

The proposal here is to have a configure argument that disables
arbitrary auth mechanisms.  How is that specific to a particular
environment?

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