Tom Lane wrote:
Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
A message entitled "Having Fun With PostgreSQL" was posted to Bugtraq
today. I haven't read through the paper yet so I don't know if the
author discusses security problems that need attention or if the
article is more like a compilation of "Stupid PostgreSQL Tricks."
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471541/30/0/threaded
It appears he's discovered the astonishing facts that
1. The out-of-the-box authentication setup is "trust".
2. A superuser can make the database do whatever he wants (within
the OS privilege limits of the postgres user).
We've debated #1 before, and a lot of repackagers change it, but I
don't really feel a strong urge to change it in the source distro.
As for #2, that's not a bug, it's intended behavior.
On #1, the fact that we allow trust as default is embarrassing. It would
be just as bad as having the default root password be password on a
linux box. We should be using md5 and force passing the password with
initdb.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
regards, tom lane
PS: I skimmed the paper pretty fast, so it's possible I missed
something interesting, but it sure looked like "what else is new?"
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