Moin, On Wed, July 18, 2018 7:25 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> Seems to me that passing %-specifiers to the command would make it more >> useful (%u for "user", "host" etc) -- your command could refuse to give >> you a password for the superuser account for instance but grant one for >> a read-only user. > > It would also provide a *very* fertile source of shell-script-injection > vulnerabilities. (Whaddya mean, you tried to use a user name with a > quote mark in it?)
Little Bobby Tables, we call him. :) I'm also concerned that that would let anybody who could alter the environment then let arbitrary code be run as user postgres. Is this something that poses a risk in addition to the current situation? Best regards, Tels
