Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens up databases for anyone!

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens up databases for anyone!
Date: 2001-11-28 06:08:09
Message-ID: 1174.1006927689@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> ... But because we are Internet-enabled,
> and because our insecurity is only local, it seems OK to people.

It's not that it's "okay", it's that we haven't got any good
alternatives. Password auth sucks from a convenience point of view
(or even from a possibility point of view, for scripts; don't forget
the changes that you yourself recently applied to guarantee that a
script *cannot* supply a password to psql). Ident auth doesn't work,
or isn't secure, in a lot of cases. Kerberos, well, not a lot to
offer there either. What else do you want to make the default?

regards, tom lane

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