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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [HACKERS] sslmode=require fallback
From:       Bruce Momjian <bruce () momjian ! us>
Date:       2016-07-30 18:18:12
Message-ID: 20160730181812.GE22405 () momjian ! us
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:27:06AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.

Oh, nice, I had not seen that.

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