Re: password-less access, without using pg_hba - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Steve Crawford
Subject Re: password-less access, without using pg_hba
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Msg-id 52F50979.2070904@pinpointresearch.com
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In response to password-less access, without using pg_hba  (Reece Hart <reece@harts.net>)
Responses Re: password-less access, without using pg_hba  (Reece Hart <reece@harts.net>)
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On 02/06/2014 06:07 PM, Reece Hart wrote:
> I'd like to provide public access, without a password, to a database
> hosted on Amazon RDS.
>
> I'm familiar with using pg_hba.conf to enable trust (no)
> authentication for a user. pg_hba.conf is not available to DBAs on RDS.
>
> Is there any other way to achieve password-less login in postgresql? I
> tried alter user password NULL.
>
Ignoring the scary security issues....

If you can't access pg_hba.conf how about just sticking pgbouncer or
similar in the middle and have your users connect through that?

Cheers,
Steve


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