Re: confirming security. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Maz Mohammadi
Subject Re: confirming security.
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Msg-id 9F992F0A0D9BA04F914597F75435942D09576C4F80@MBX36.exg5.exghost.com
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In response to Re: confirming security.  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
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Good tip!  Thank you.



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Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 2:35 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] confirming security.

On 2/22/2013 8:13 AM, Maz Mohammadi wrote:
> Ahhh yes....it is now...
>
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> # TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD
> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
> #local   all             all                                     trust
> # IPv4 local connections:
> #host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
> # IPv6 local connections:
> #host    all             all             ::1/128                 trust
> # Allow replication connections from localhost, by a user with the #=20
> replication privilege.
> #local   replication     postgres-xc                                trust
> #host    replication     postgres-xc        127.0.0.1/32            trust
> #host    replication     postgres-xc        ::1/128                 trust
> hostssl all             all             127.0.0.1/32            cert

I would leave a local line in front of that like..

local   all postgres peer

this will allow the postgres user to log on regardless when using unix sock=
ets rather than tcp/ip (eg, when not specifying any -h hostname). =20
handy for database administration and fixing problems.



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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast



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