On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jon Jensen wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jan Wieck wrote: > > > If you want to prevent "accidential" access, start postmaster on a > > non-standard port. > > That seems like an unfriendly thing to do. You'd have to check to see what > port is "standard" for this particular installation, and pick something > else. You may choose an unused port, but perhaps it needs to be used in a > few minutes by some other process, but then will be occupied. The > administrator may also not be happy to have an open port facing the world, > or even just other possibly untrusted users on the same machine, assuming > you bind to localhost.
But aren't ports above a certain number "fair game"? Yep, just answered my own question, quoting from /etc/services: The latest IANA port assignments can be gotten from # http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers # The Well Known Ports are those from 0 through 1023. # The Registered Ports are those from 1024 through 49151 # The Dynamic and/or Private Ports are those from 49152 through 65535 so as long as we use 49152 and above we're cool. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
