On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:27:06AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 7/29/16 11:13 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Yes, I am thinking of a case where Postgres is down but a malevolent > > user starts a Postgres server on 5432 to gather passwords. Verifying > > against an SSL certificate would avoid this problem, so there is some > > value in using SSL on localhost. (There is no such security available > > for Unix-domain socket connections.) > > Sure, there is the requirepeer connection option for that.
