Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:06, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>> Is this paranoia, or is it a valid security point. Any comments,
>> please?
> A little from column A, a little from column B, IMHO.
Mostly column A, IMHO. The presumption is that an attacker (a) knows
that program X contains an embedded password and (b) is able to control
the environment in which the program is executed. Given that
combination I can think of hardly anything that would *not* be
vulnerable. For one thing, setting up a man-in-the-middle situation
would be pretty easy.
I can't imagine any situation in which I'd recommend embedding a
password into a postgres client app anyway.
regards, tom lane