Re: [GENERAL] Another access control query

A lot of this has come up recently. Bruce, perhaps you can add a TODO like
this:
* Completely rethink authentication.

I have some ideas (think tcpd), but I have way too many ideas and too
little time these days :(

-Peter

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Mark Jewiss wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Similar to other questions I've seen posed in the last day or so,
> apologies if this exact question has been asked, I don't think it has.
>
> I want to restrict access to a set of databases to connections from a
> specfic machine and a specific user.
>
> Lines in my pg_hba.conf file are similar to this:
>
> host db1 serverip netmask password
>
> Effectively what I want to do is have something like:
>
> host db1 username1 serverip netmask password
> host db2 username2 serverip netmask password
>
> thereby ensuring that it is not possible for user2 to connect to db1 from
> the same machine.
>
> I know I can set up the different db's so that table security only gives
> any access to the user I want, but that is fiddly. Being able to do the
> above and prevent connections to the database will resolve that issue.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark.
>

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