Re: basic security

From: Tim Bowden <tim(dot)bowden(at)westnet(dot)com(dot)au>
To: reh2(at)prodigy(dot)net
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: basic security
Date: 2008-11-05 17:51:08
Message-ID: 1225907468.6076.17.camel@edoras
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See pg_hba.conf.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/auth-pg-hba-conf.html

Regards,
Tim Bowden

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 09:34 -0800, Robert Hollingsworth wrote:
> hello,
> I want to establish basic security for my pgsql database, which is on
> a commercial web server. In particular, I don't want people to be
> able to login from the internet as my superuser.
>
> If I ALTER USER my_superuser NOLOGIN, will that be sufficient? I've
> passworded that user, but I seem to be able to get access myself
> without providing the password.
>
> thanks,
> REH
>
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