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

From Decibel!
Subject Re: Spoofing as the postmaster
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Msg-id 20071224202724.GO91207@decibel.org
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In response to Spoofing as the postmaster  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:25:05AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> So, what solutions exist?  We could require the use of port numbers less
> than 1024 which typically require root and then become a non-root user,
> but that requires root to start the server.  We could put the unix

I don't know about *requiring* this, but it would certainly be a nice
option to have. Right now there's absolutely no way that you could get
Postgres to use a port < 1024.
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