Re: Open 7.3 items

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Ron Snyder wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Yes, is that your pg_hba.conf line? 'password' is insecure over
> > > > > > > networks you don't trust.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes, we're using 'password password' in our pg_hba.conf file. I trust my
> > > > > > network (so far).
> > > > >
> > > > > That is another major limitation to secondary password files. In fact,
> > > > > md5 will not even work because we assume the username is used as the
> > > > > salt for the md5 encryption. We don't store the salt as part of the
> > > > > encrypted password like crypt does.
> > > > >
> > > > > This was another reason secondary password files were discouraged.
> > > >
> > > > discouraged?? where? :)
> > >
> > > Well. I meant that they had very limited usefulness. You had to trust
> > > your network.
> >
> > that is the case for alot of software, and alot of networks nowadays are
> > moving towards encrypted at the switch level, so the local network itself
> > is considered to be 'secure' ...
> >
> > But, personally, you sooooooo sold me on that GUC thing that if we could
> > implement that in time for v7.3, I think alot of ppl would find that
> > *quite* valuable ...
> >
>
> I am working on it now. I decided against doing any kind of database
> prepending at the user level. You create the user as 'dbname.username'.
> That is clearer, rather than prepending based on the db you are
> connected to. The only code change is in the postmaster authentication
> lookup and ownership setting from the backend connection.

Okay, just a couple of questions ... if there any way of provide
'superuse' access a user of the database for creating new users? Say one
creates a dbname.pgsql account, could it be given 'create user' privileges
for other users with a prefix of dbname.*?

and, what happens if one doesn't specify dbname.*? does that user become
'global', or have access to nothing?