Re: Spoofing as the postmaster

D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>  - 1:  How does the client assure that the postmaster is legit
>  - 2:  How does the postmaster assure that the client is legit
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And neither answers the original problem:

3. How can the sysadmin prevent a malicious local user from hijacking 
the sockets if the postmaster isn't running?

Prevention is much more valuable than ex post detection, IMNSHO.

Probably the first answer is not to run postgres on a machine with 
untrusted users, but that's not always possible. Maybe we can't find a 
simple cross-platform answer, but that doesn't mean we should not look 
at platform-specific answers, at least for documentation.

cheers

andrew