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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Spoofing as the postmaster
Date
Msg-id 200712241735.lBOHZsG20073@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Spoofing as the postmaster  (Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky@batory.org.pl>)
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Tomasz Ostrowski wrote:
> > Fundamentally these are man-in-the-middle attacks, and the only real
> > solution is mutual authentication.
> 
> The problem is not many people expect man-in-the-middle attack on
> secure lan, localhost or local socket connection, so they'll not try
> to prevent it.

Agreed.  This was the big surprise for me, and hence the new
documentation section I wrote.

I think based on this discussion that there is no way for us easily to
to avoid vulnerabilities so documentation/education seems the most
appropriate approach.

--  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
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