| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [v9.1] Add security hook on initialization of instance |
| Date: | 2010-07-09 14:52:22 |
| Message-ID: | 20100709145222.GS21875@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Stephen Frost (sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net) wrote:
> Guess my first thought was that you'd have a database-level label that
> would be used by SELinux to validate a connection. A second thought is
> labels for roles. KaiGai, can you provide your thoughts on this
> discussion/approach/problems? I realize it's come a bit far-afield from
> your original proposal.
Something else which has come up but is related is the ability to
support a "pam_tally"-like function in PG. Basically, the ability to
lock users out if they've had too many failed login attempts. I wonder
if we could add this hook (or maybe have more than one if necessary) in
a way to support a contrib module for that.
Thanks,
Stephen
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