Re: Security question : Database access control

From: "Igor Georgiev" <gory(at)alphasoft-bg(dot)com>
To: "dima" <_pppp(at)mail(dot)ru>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Security question : Database access control
Date: 2002-10-22 16:12:16
Message-ID: 00e301c279e5$cb03f0e0$0b0546c0@alpha.bg
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> > edit *pg_hba.conf *
> > # Allow any user on the local system to connect to any
> > # database under any username, but only via an IP connection:
> > host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
> > # The same, over Unix-socket connections:
> > local all trust
> what about reading pg_hba.conf comments?
> local all md5
>

Ok, but my question actually isn't about pg_hba.conf comments, i read enough
but what will stop root from adding this lines or doing su - postgres ??

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