| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: SSL over Unix-domain sockets |
| Date: | 2008-01-15 12:21:21 |
| Message-ID: | 20080115122121.GC4473@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> It strikes me that given the postmaster's infrastructure for listening
> on multiple sockets, it would be a pretty small matter of programming
> to teach it to listen on socket files in multiple directories not only
> one.
The problem with this idea is that if the postmaster goes away, both
sockets go away, which means the attacker can place his socket in /tmp
as he sees fit.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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