| From: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
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| To: | John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Zouari Fourat <fourat(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: problems with user rights |
| Date: | 2005-03-30 16:43:52 |
| Message-ID: | 1112201032.31277.40.camel@state.g2switchworks.com |
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On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:14, John DeSoi wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Zouari Fourat wrote:
>
> > is it really secure in a shared hosting environnement case ?
> > do you advise me to offer pgsql in a shared hosting ?
>
> You can do all of the necessary things to control access to the
> databases. You just can't hide that they exist if you provide a way to
> directly query the database. There are may companies providing shared
> hosting. I'm not aware of any security issues.
My preferred way to setup accecss is to use the sameuser setting in
pg_hba.conf, which lets a user only connect to the database of their
name. Nicely partitions the server with minimum configuration needed.
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