Re: brute force attacking the password - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Wim Bertels
Subject Re: brute force attacking the password
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Msg-id 42651CFF.1020703@khleuven.be
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In response to Re: brute force attacking the password  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: brute force attacking the password  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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>Can't people use PAM to get this effect if they want it?

what if u use pam with ldap, then u can use pg brute force cracking to obtain the ldap password, which is probably a
biggerproblem 

>For most people password guessing isn't going to be a big problem as
>the database won't be accessible from totally untrusted places and watching
>the log files for guessing will probably be a good enough solution.

what if u do want the database to be globally accessible..


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