Jaime Casanova <jcasa...@systemguards.com.ec> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> It's intentional.  We try to expose the minimum amount of knowledge
>> about the contents of pg_hba.conf to potential attackers.

> i just tried it in CVS and in 8.4 and when i put a reject rule on
> pg_hba.conf what i get is:
> psql: FATAL:  no pg_hba.conf entry for host "127.0.0.1", user "mic",
> database "mic"

> so we are giving a lot of info already

All three of those data values are known to the client; they don't add
knowledge about what is in pg_hba.conf.

                        regards, tom lane

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