Re: Information of pg_stat_ssl visible to all users

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Information of pg_stat_ssl visible to all users
Date: 2015-08-30 03:35:56
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQA9kwX-sC1xkYdf_oVezLE=LN+Q6ZmbTyrgyQPCopOMg@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I know I am coming in late here, but I know Heroku uses random user
> names to allow a cluster to have per-user databases without showing
> external user name details:
> [...]
> I can see them having problems with a user being able to see the SSL
> remote user names of all connected users.
>

Yep, and I can imagine that this is the case of any company managing cloud
nodes with Postgres embedded, and at least to me that's a real concern.
--
Michael

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