Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The fundamental problem is that because we don't require root, any user's
> postmaster or pretend postmaster is as legitimate as anyone else's. SSL
> certificates add legitimacy checks for TCP, but not for unix domain
> sockets.
Wouldn't SSL work over Unix-domain sockets as well? The API only deals with
file descriptors.
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Peter Eisentraut
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