Re: Spoofing as the postmaster

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I think at a minimum we need to add documentation that states if you
> > > don't trust the local users on the postmaster server you should:
> > >
> > > o create unix domain socket files in a non-world-writable
> > > directory
> > > o require SSL server certificates for TCP connections
> >
> > I have written documentation for this item:
> >
> > http://momjian.us/tmp/pgsql/server-shutdown.html#SERVER-SPOOFING
> >
> > Comments?
>
> What you actually need on the client side is ~/.postgresql/root.crt, not
> ~/.postgresql/postgresql.crt as you wrote.

Thanks, updated:

http://momjian.us/tmp/pgsql/preventing-server-spoofing.html

(I mentioned the file name specificly so people like me wouldn't get
confused.) :-)

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