Re: [GENERAL] password-less access, without using pg_hba

2014-02-08 Thread Reece Hart
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Steve Crawford < scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com> wrote: > Ignoring the scary security issues > One of the niceties of an RDS deployment is that I don't care much about the security issues: The machine is not in our VPC, there's only public data on it, and I pre

Re: [GENERAL] password-less access, without using pg_hba

2014-02-07 Thread Steve Crawford
On 02/06/2014 06:07 PM, Reece Hart wrote: I'd like to provide public access, without a password, to a database hosted on Amazon RDS. I'm familiar with using pg_hba.conf to enable trust (no) authentication for a user. pg_hba.conf is not available to DBAs on RDS. Is there any other way to achi

Re: [GENERAL] password-less access, without using pg_hba

2014-02-06 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:37 PM, David Johnston wrote: > >> Doubtful. >> > > Yeah, that's what I had assumed too. > > The question is motivated entirely by what I think would make it easier for > users. In principle it's not difficult to give people a password (as I do > now), but in practice

Re: [GENERAL] password-less access, without using pg_hba

2014-02-06 Thread David Johnston
Reece Hart wrote > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:37 PM, David Johnston < > polobo@ > > wrote: > >> Doubtful. >> > > Yeah, that's what I had assumed too. > > The question is motivated entirely by what I think would make it easier > for > users. In principle it's not difficult to give people a passwo

Re: [GENERAL] password-less access, without using pg_hba

2014-02-06 Thread Reece Hart
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:37 PM, David Johnston wrote: > Doubtful. > Yeah, that's what I had assumed too. The question is motivated entirely by what I think would make it easier for users. In principle it's not difficult to give people a password (as I do now), but in practice it's a barrier tha

Re: [GENERAL] password-less access, without using pg_hba

2014-02-06 Thread David Johnston
Reece Hart wrote > I'd like to provide public access, without a password, to a database > hosted > on Amazon RDS. > > I'm familiar with using pg_hba.conf to enable trust (no) authentication > for > a user. pg_hba.conf is not available to DBAs on RDS. > > Is there any other way to achieve password

Re: [GENERAL] password-less access, without using pg_hba

2014-02-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/6/2014 6:07 PM, Reece Hart wrote: I'd like to provide public access, without a password, to a database hosted on Amazon RDS. I'm familiar with using pg_hba.conf to enable trust (no) authentication for a user. pg_hba.conf is not available to DBAs on RDS. Is there any other way to achieve