Re: Bug #6337 Patch

Hi

[please keep the list CC'd]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 10:14 AM Florian Sabonchi <sabonchi(at)posteo(dot)de>
wrote:

> Hello Dave,
>
> As you said, it doesn't make sense to ban ip addresses. Alternatively, a
> captcha could be implemented that prevents an attacker from trying to
> bruteforce an account.
>

We did discuss using a captcha, but a) I *really* dislike them, and b) most
of the good ones require internet access which not all users have.

>
> On 22.07.21 10:31, Dave Page wrote:
> > That's more difficult to deal with - there are common deployment
> > scenarios where all connections might appear to come from a single IP,
> > for example, when behind a load balancer (there are good reasons to do
> > that, even with a single pgAdmin instance) or proxy. In such cases we
> > may or may not get an X-Forwarded-For header, and even if we do it may
> > not be reliable.
>

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