Re: Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Hammond <andrew(dot)george(dot)hammond(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL
Date: 2007-06-26 22:17:28
Message-ID: 46819078.70005@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>
>> All that really has to happen is that dblink should by default not be
>> callable by any user other than Postgres.
>>
>
> Yeah, that is not an unreasonable change. Someone suggested it far
> upthread, but we seem to have gotten distracted :-(
>
>
>> The only problem with this is that dblink provides 36 different functions
>>
>
> I think just having the install script revoke public execute access
> on the connection-establishing functions would be sufficient. There
> are only two of 'em.
>
>
>

+1 on this.

cheers

andrew

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