Re: Spoofing as the postmaster

From: Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Trevor Talbot <quension(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky(at)batory(dot)org(dot)pl>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Spoofing as the postmaster
Date: 2007-12-24 19:47:25
Message-ID: 47700CCD.5050808@mark.mielke.cc
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Mark Mielke wrote:
>
>>
>> I agree - I forgot there were different flavours. I think any of these
>> are just as good as SSL with public key authentication, and perhaps a
>> lot cheaper in terms of performance. The only piece of information
>> missing is the uid to compare against, which may as well be provided in
>> the db open parameters the same as any other parameters might be provided.
>>
>
> True, but if you are going to have the client check a uid we might as
> well just put the socket file in a secure directory and be done with it.
>

That's a good point too... :-)

Cheers,
mark

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Mark Mielke <mark(at)mielke(dot)cc>

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