Re: how to keep/lock/ hide pg_hba.conf ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: how to keep/lock/ hide pg_hba.conf ?
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Msg-id 1302549787.22447.1.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to how to keep/lock/ hide pg_hba.conf ?  ("john.cheng" <neoart.hinet@msa.hinet.net>)
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On mån, 2011-04-11 at 07:35 -0700, john.cheng wrote:
> I found that,if user modified the pg_hba.conf, modified the
> "METHOD"field from md5 to "password" then,user can find out the
> password by some the TCP/IP peep tool

Don't do that then.

Are you concerned that your users would do this?  Well, if you install
software on their machine, they can do whatever they want with it.
That's not an easy issue to solve.




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