| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: SSL over Unix-domain sockets |
| Date: | 2008-01-15 15:55:02 |
| Message-ID: | 20080115155502.GG4473@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > One thing to be aware of is /tmp cleaners ...
>
> ... but that would definitely be a problem. I think on most systems
> you'd have to explicitly tweak the /tmp-cleaning script to know not to
> zap such a link. Given that such a local customization would probably
> disappear in your next system update, the security gain might be
> fleeting.
We could hack the postmaster so that it touches the /tmp socket
(hardcoded path) in addition to the unix_socket_directory one.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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