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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Nick <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Initial Postgres admin account setup using Ansible?
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:32:58 -0700
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 5:17 PM Nick <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> ```
> local    all             all             peer map=ansible_map
> ```
>
>
> In `pg_ident.conf`, add:
>
> ```
> ansible_map     ansible                 postgres
> ansible_map     postgres                postgres
>
> ```
>
>
> This seems to work, but is it secure? If USER is `all` in
> `pg_hba.conf`, can any POSIX account login?
>
>
The presence of the mapping file reference makes the entry secure in the
sense that only those connection combinations that are explicitly permitted
can happen.  The "all" is automatically restricted to those accounts listed
in the file.  At worst you might get an unwanted failure if, say, you
wanted some other account "alice" to be able to connect to the cluster
using the role "alice".  The "all" would match and use the mapping that
doesn't include "alice".

David J.


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