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From: pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Lothar Behrens
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:49 AM
To: <pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org> <pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [ODBC] Insecurity of ODBC debug logging files
Am 05.10.2005 um 21:08 schrieb Dave Page:
>> But even then, a log file will frequently contain sensitive data (eg,
>> credit card numbers appearing in INSERT statements).
>> Seems to me that there should also be some care taken to make the log
>> file not world-readable.
>
> I'll have a look at writing them with mode 600 on *nix. On Win9x and
> NT based systems with FAT partitions there's nothing we can do of course.
> I'd rather not make the filenames unpredicatable though as that'll
> make it difficult for us to tell users how to track down the right
> debug log.
>
Hi,
what about a special database type like sensitive or an encrypted column type ?
If the ODBC driver comes across of such a column, it could be masked out as well.
Regards, Lothar
> Regards, Dave.
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