Re: sslmode=require fallback - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: sslmode=require fallback
Date
Msg-id 20160822212052.GB13292@momjian.us
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In response to Re: sslmode=require fallback  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 09:22:32AM -0700, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:27:06AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>     > On 7/29/16 11:13 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>     > > Yes, I am thinking of a case where Postgres is down but a malevolent
>     > > user starts a Postgres server on 5432 to gather passwords.  Verifying
>     > > against an SSL certificate would avoid this problem, so there is some
>     > > value in using SSL on localhost.  (There is no such security available
>     > > for Unix-domain socket connections.)
>     >
>     > Sure, there is the requirepeer connection option for that.
> 
>     Oh, nice, I had not seen that.
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> There is typo in the doc patch you just committed
> 
> "On way to prevent spoofing of"
> 
> s/On/One/

Oops, thanks, fixed.

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