| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jakob Egger <jakob(at)eggerapps(dot)at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: sslmode=require fallback |
| Date: | 2016-07-29 15:27:06 |
| Message-ID: | 45016837-6cf3-3136-f959-763d06a28076@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 7/29/16 11:13 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Yes, I am thinking of a case where Postgres is down but a malevolent
> user starts a Postgres server on 5432 to gather passwords. Verifying
> against an SSL certificate would avoid this problem, so there is some
> value in using SSL on localhost. (There is no such security available
> for Unix-domain socket connections.)
Sure, there is the requirepeer connection option for that.
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