Restricting permissions on Unix socket - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Restricting permissions on Unix socket
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0010312136190.1073-100000@peter.localdomain
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Responses Re: Restricting permissions on Unix socket
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I'd like to add an option or two to restrict the set of users that can
connect to the Unix domain socket of the postmaster, as an extra security
option.

I imagine something like this:

unix_socket_perm = 0660
unix_socket_group = pgusers

Obviously, permissions that don't have 6's in there don't make much sense,
but I feel this notation is the most intuitive way for admins.

I'm not sure how to do the group thing, though.  If I use chown(2) then
there's a race condition, but doing savegid; create socket; restoregid
might be too awkward?  Any hints?

-- 
Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/



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