Re: Postgres Pain Points: 1 pg_hba conf

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:04:37AM -0600, support-tiger wrote:

> #1) pg_hba conf
> Out of the box the md5 setting blocks access. Most "advice" say change to
> "all all trust" and indeed that works. But that seems a big security issue.
> Specifying a postgres role, password, and peer does not seem to work. And
> this approach is problematic if there are many roles or even dynamically
> created roles.
>
> Or is pb_hba conf set up for web sockets and we should be using sockets?
>
> For general use, it seems we should not have to modify this file - it should
> "just work" with good security.

While I agree this sounds desirable I don't think it is
possible (depending on the definition of "possible").

Would you like to offer a suggestion as to what pg_hba.conf
should be configured as by default ? (Note that I am not
soliciting a suggestion on behalf of the PostgreSQL team.)

Methinks "deny-by-default" is Good Practice security-wise ?

Regards,
Karsten
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