Re: Automated database backups and authentication

From: Darren McClelland <darren(at)zonarsystems(dot)com>
To: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Automated database backups and authentication
Date: 2002-08-06 18:39:03
Message-ID: 20020806183903.52622475B07@postgresql.org
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Thanks, that's an idea. I'd always been thinking of ident as unreliable, but
if I control the authenticating server then it's something usable. At least I
can force an attacker to get root before they can go after the other machine.
That's about the best anyone can hope for.
Darren

On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:30, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:14:47AM -0700, Darren McClelland wrote:
> > I haven't found any real answers in any of the archives, or docs. Has
> > anyone here done something like this or have any thoughts?
>
> If you control and trust both servers, why not use ident
> authentication?
>
> A

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