Re: ident authentication problem

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:58:14PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> a) it seems SQL ledger wants to store data in PostgreSQL
> b) I assume it wants to store *financial* data
> c) local/all/trust means *all* *local* users are *trusted*, eg
>    don't require any authentication, hence system account foo
>    can access *all* databases (including the SQL-ledger one)
>    even though foo does not have a corresponding DB account
>
> Assuming, that there aren't any schema level restrictions
> (GRANTs) set up which may or may not be the case. Forgot to
> mention that point earlier on.

If the data is protected by GRANT/REVOKE, a malicious (or curious) user
can work around them by connecting as the database superuser, so in
practice there's no protection at all.

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