Package: postgresql
Version: 7.2.1-2woody6
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Hi,
The check for "peer" database type in
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup is not strict enough and it
catches databases that just so happen to be called -- "peer".
Please fix the regexp match to include a $ at the end so that it only
matches "peer" in the last element. That is:
--- /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup~ Tue Oct 26 22:58:08 2004
+++ /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup Sat Jan 22 15:52:01 2005
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
fi
fi
-if grep -qs '^local.*[ ]*peer[ ]' /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf
+if grep -qs '^local.*[ ]*peer[ ]$' /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf
then
echo "Invalid pg_hba.conf authentication spec. Change all occurrences
of
peer authentication to ident in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf."
TIA.
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