Re: pam auth - add rhost item

From: Grzegorz Sampolski <grzsmp(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pam auth - add rhost item
Date: 2015-12-27 16:31:56
Message-ID: 5680127C.9080708@gmail.com
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Hi there!
I'm alive and working on new patch.
So, I takes into account all suggestions from Tomas and I'll
add additional parameter `usedns' with `yes/no' values to pass
resolved hostname or ip address through rhost_item.

On 12/24/2015 03:35 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Tomas Vondra
> <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Actually, one more thing - the patch should probably update the docs too,
>> because client-auth.sgml currently says this in the "auth-pam" section:
>>
>> <para>
>> ...
>> PAM is used only to validate user name/password pairs.
>> ...
>> </para>
>>
>> I believe that's no longer true, because the patch adds PAM_RHOST to the
>> user/password fields.
>>
>> Regarding the other PAM_* fields, none of them strikes me as very useful for
>> our use case.
>>
>> In a broader sense, I think this patch is quite desirable, despite being
>> rather simple (which is good). I certainly don't agree with suggestions that
>> we can already do things like this through pg_hba.conf. If we're providing
>> PAM authentication, let's make it as complete/useful as possible. In some
>> cases modifying PAM may not be feasible - e.g. some management systems rely
>> on PAM as much as possible, and doing changes in other ways is a major
>> hassle.
> There is no input from the author for more than 1 month, I have marked
> the patch as returned with feedback because of a lack of activity.

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