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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