mlw wrote:
> >The comments at the top suggest sniffing a Postgres session startup
> >exchange in order to see the MD5 value that the user presents; which the
> >attacker would then give to this program. (Forget it if the session is
> >Unix-local rather than TCP, or if it's SSL-encrypted...)
> >
> >This is certainly a theoretically possible attack against someone who
> >has no clue about security, but I don't put any stock in it as a
> >practical attack. For starters, if you are talking to your database
> >across a network that is open to hostile sniffers, you should definitely
> >be using SSL.
> >
> >
> This is absolutely correct, shouldn't this be in the FAQ?
Well, this is a pretty rare issue, so it doesn't seem like an FAQ.
People need to understand the ramifications of the various pg_hba.conf
settings, and I think our documentation does that.
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