| From: | dipti shah <shahdipti1980(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> |
| Cc: | postgres(at)tbruce(dot)com, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Questions on PostGreSQL Authentication mechanism... |
| Date: | 2010-02-03 06:42:57 |
| Message-ID: | d5b05a951002022242l6094768q3de7bc6f674e068c@mail.gmail.com |
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That makes sense.
Thanks,
Dipti
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
> dipti shah wrote:
>
>> I am connected to database as postgres user.
>> '\!exec ..' doesn't work if I connect to the database from other host but
>> it does work if I connect to the database from server where I have
>> PostGreSQL installed. pg_read_file doesn't work in any case.
>> Techdb=# \! exec cat /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf
>> cat: cannot open /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf
>>
>
> thats because psql runs the command on the LOCAL server that the user is
> running psql on. would be all kinda security problems if a user could run
> commands on the remote server without having logged onto it as a regular
> user.
>
>
>
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