Re: Security choices...

where is the hole?  don't you trust your employees? *raised eyebrows*

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Jeff MacDonald wrote:

> this kinda has a hole in it also.. our database server only has about 5
> uesrs on it , all are employee acounts, not clients. 
> 
> jeff
> 
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Philip Warner wrote:
> 
> > At 18:34 4/08/00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> > >> Philip Warner writes:
> > >> 
> > >> > Is there any reason that a security model does not exist for psql that
> > >> > allows Unix user 'fred' to log in as PG user 'fred' with no password etc,
> > >> > but any user trying to log on as someone other than themselves has to
> > >> > provide a password?
> > >> 
> > >> Short of someone sitting down and making it happen I don't see any. You'd
> > >> only need to implement some sort of fall-through in `pg_hba.conf', which
> > >> in my estimate can't be exceedingly hard.
> > >
> > >How do you know Fred is Fred without a password?
> > >
> > 
> > The idea was to apply only on the matchine on which the postmaster runs;
> > then ideally you get the username of the client process. It's kind of like
> > IDENT, except it works only for local connections, and asks for passwords
> > for non-local connections.
> > 
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> Jeff MacDonald,
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