Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens
Date: 2001-11-28 20:48:02
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0111281458390.636-100000@peter.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> It's not that it's "okay", it's that we haven't got any good
> alternatives. Password auth sucks from a convenience point of view
> (or even from a possibility point of view, for scripts; don't forget
> the changes that you yourself recently applied to guarantee that a
> script *cannot* supply a password to psql). Ident auth doesn't work,
> or isn't secure, in a lot of cases. Kerberos, well, not a lot to
> offer there either. What else do you want to make the default?

unix_socket_permissions = 0700

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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