| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens |
| Date: | 2001-12-05 21:23:38 |
| Message-ID: | 200112052123.fB5LNc012072@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > It's not that it's "okay", it's that we haven't got any good
> > alternatives. Password auth sucks from a convenience point of view
> > (or even from a possibility point of view, for scripts; don't forget
> > the changes that you yourself recently applied to guarantee that a
> > script *cannot* supply a password to psql). Ident auth doesn't work,
> > or isn't secure, in a lot of cases. Kerberos, well, not a lot to
> > offer there either. What else do you want to make the default?
>
> unix_socket_permissions = 0700
Added to TODO:
* Allow secure single-user use without passwords using Unix socket permissions
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