Re: Spoofing as the postmaster - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Spoofing as the postmaster
Date
Msg-id 200712230941.04594.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Spoofing as the postmaster  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Spoofing as the postmaster  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I think at a minimum we need to add documentation that states if you
> > don't trust the local users on the postmaster server you should:
> >
> >     o  create unix domain socket files in a non-world-writable
> >        directory
> >     o  require SSL server certificates for TCP connections
>
> I have written documentation for this item:
>
>     http://momjian.us/tmp/pgsql/server-shutdown.html#SERVER-SPOOFING
>
> Comments?

What you actually need on the client side is ~/.postgresql/root.crt, not 
~/.postgresql/postgresql.crt as you wrote.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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