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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Spoofing as the postmaster
Date
Msg-id 200712231303.lBND31223521@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Spoofing as the postmaster  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, updated:
http://momjian.us/tmp/pgsql/preventing-server-spoofing.html

(I mentioned the file name specificly so people like me wouldn't get
confused.)  :-)

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