Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection
Date: 2010-04-20 14:05:09
Message-ID: 26365.1271772309@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/02/postgres-fingerprinting.html

> Assuming the situation really is as described here, I am wondering if
> we should suppress the F, L, and R output in this and similar cases
> and back-patch it all the way back. This seems like it is entirely
> too helpful.

[ yawn.. ] I'm unimpressed: should we also ensure that neither ASCII
nor translated texts of authentication failure messages ever change?
IIRC, you were lobbying *for* such a change only a day or two ago.

regards, tom lane

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