Re: Re: few more securiry questions :-)

--- Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> Chris Albertson writes:
>
> > > > 2.Why the authentication system is not
> integrated in
> > > > the system databases of pgSQL,like in MySQL
> for
> > > > example?
> > >
> > > Because there's a bootstrapping problem: You
> would have to connect to the
> > > database to change the authentication settings,
> but in order to connect
> > > you have to be authenticated.
> >
> > That's not to hard to fix. You just have initdb
> create system catalogs
> > with a the required settings.
>
> But when you accidentally hose things up then you
> have no way to get in a
> repair things. It also looks like a race condition
> waiting to happen.
>
OK! Bit I think there could be a solution for this.
You can inplement some option in the postmaster to
trust to some user from localhost, for example:
"postmaster --trust postgres &" this should give you a
root acess to dbs from user postgres ;-) and there
should no be problem to repair the things (if you know
what you are doing ofcourse :-)).

regards,
Rumen

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