Re: Changing Passwords as Encrypted not Clear-Text

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: MURAT KOÇ <m(dot)koc21(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Changing Passwords as Encrypted not Clear-Text
Date: 2011-12-19 15:45:28
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On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 17:19 +0200, MURAT KOÇ wrote:
> Thanks for reply. But it's not suitable to trust the people who have
> access to the logs.
>
> Think, I changed my DB password and other DBA colleague who has access
> to the PostgreSQL logs has seen my DB password. He started to use my
> DB password instead of his password.
>
> He executed all DDL and DML statements with my DB account. In fact, I
> did nothing but because of this gap I did all things.
>
> Is it a trustable situation ? How will we identify who is guilty he or
> me?
>

Do they have access to the pg_hba.conf file? because if they have, you
have no chance to stop them from connecting to the database with your
user account and without any need to know your password.

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Guillaume
http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info
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