Re: Problems with user-level security - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Chad R. Larson
Subject Re: Problems with user-level security
Date
Msg-id 4.2.2.20011107081953.00a7c540@smtp.eldocomp.com
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In response to Problems with user-level security  (Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>)
List pgsql-admin
At 06:19 PM 11/6/01 -0800, Nick Sayer wrote:
>On the other hand, I do a nightly pg_dumpall as part of the backups so that
>I don't have to dump the actual database working areas. For that to work, I
>need to say
>
>local all password
>
>so that my backup script will work.

I started an IDENT server on my machines and then added a rule that said if
"ident" said the user was postgres, it had access to anything.
I don't know if that's secure enough for you, but it works for us on our
production network inside our firewall.
         -crl
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Chad R. Larson (CRL22)    chad@eldocomp.com
   Eldorado Computing, Inc.   602-604-3100
      5353 North 16th Street, Suite 400
        Phoenix, Arizona   85016-3228


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