Re: Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL

From: Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL
Date: 2007-06-22 20:57:21
Message-ID: 20A5D273-70AB-4F26-B649-431495429348@decibel.org
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On Jun 19, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> I know there's issues with using ident sameuser via TCP, but what
>> about for filesystem socket connections?
>
> Not all OSes support ident ... Solaris and OpenBSD for two, don't,
> because
> they see ident as insecure.

What about the unix domain socket, though? AFAIK that doesn't rely on
ident but some other method...
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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