Re: [ADMIN] New to PostgreSQL, is this a DoS? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Dax Kelson
Subject Re: [ADMIN] New to PostgreSQL, is this a DoS?
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.02A.9811152249490.8418-100000@brookie.inconnect.com
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In response to New to PostgreSQL, is this a DoS?  (Dax Kelson <dkelson-list-pgsql-admin@inconnect.com>)
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On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Dax Kelson wrote:

> Is this a denial of service?  A remote user can connect and create as many
> phantom tables as they want which could possibly interfere with normal
> operation?  How would the admin even know the name of the table to drop?
>
> If I connect locally as user "postgres" and I can successfully create and
> see the table.
>
> Is it normal behaviour that user "postgres" must first create the tables
> for them to be useable?

After more testing I found futher strange behavior.  After locally
user "postgres" creates any table in the database, any remote users can
then create any new table, and it isn't "phantom" (can see it/use it).

Is this desirable and/or expected behavior?  It doesn't seem to me that it
is.




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