Lange Marcus wrote:
Not that it matters in your case. The password might as well be
password - if they get access to the files/application,
it's game
over.
What about having some of the columns encrypted in the database ?
Will that improve things abit ?
Not unless you can
Huxton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: den 23 augusti 2007 16:02
To: Lange Marcus; PG-General Mailing List
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Local authentication/security
Lange Marcus wrote:
Hi,
I guess the answer to the 2 questions would be, yes the user will
probably have physical access
Lange Marcus wrote:
Ok. But apart from the risk with having the physical access to the
computer, would it be a reasonable safe solution to limit the access
with a password then ? So that, assuming a user does not have the
possibility to get any kind of root access, there is no way to read
or
Is there a way to assure that the database does not get
stored on disk
? If my program, everytime it starts, would create or build up the
database could this database be kept in RAM ? Or does postgres
automatically create a database file or something ? Do you
understand
what i
Lange Marcus wrote:
Not that it matters in your case. The password might as well
be password - if they get access to the files/application,
it's game over.
What about having some of the columns encrypted in the database ?
Will that improve things abit ?
Not unless you can keep the key
Hello,
I would like to be able to restrict the access to a database so that
only a specific program running on the same machine can access it, is
this possible ? So I would like to have some kind of secure
authentication(or something) between the database and the program, and
the user running the
Lange Marcus wrote:
Hi,
I guess the answer to the 2 questions would be, yes the user will
probably have physical access to the machine, but will not have
superuser access. The OS is, atleast for now, windows.
I have been looking and searching manuals and so on for different
methods but I still
Lange Marcus wrote:
I would like to be able to restrict the access to a database so that
only a specific program running on the same machine can access it,
In postgresql.conf, set
unix_socket_permissions = 770
unix_socket_group = postgres
and make your program setgid postgres. Or some
