From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
Cc: | Jan Urbański <wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: contrib: auth_delay module |
Date: | 2010-11-04 14:04:55 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTikw=YPZjjjODypZZ=SwW4Q7NtjJwj_Gx=5dz8B2@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Jan Urbański (wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org) wrote:
>> On 04/11/10 14:09, Robert Haas wrote:
>> > Hmm, I wonder how useful this is given that restriction.
>>
>> As KaiGai mentined, it's more to make bruteforcing difficult (read: tmie
>> consuming), right?
>
> Which it would still do, since the attacker would be bumping up against
> max_connections. max_connections would be a DOS point, but that's no
> different from today. Other things could be put in place to address
> that (max # of connections from a given IP or range could be implemented
> using iptables, as an example).
>
> 5 second delay w/ max connections at 100 would mean max of 20 attempts
> per second, no? That's alot fewer than 100*(however many attempts can
> be done in a second). Doing a stupid while true; psql -d blah; done
> managed to get 50 successful ident auths+no-db-found errors done in a
> second on one box here. 5000 >> 20, and I wasn't even trying.
OK. I was just asking. I don't object to it if people think it's
useful, especially if they are looking at it as "I would actually use
this on my system" rather than "I can imagine a hypothetical person
using this".
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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