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* Security!!!
@ 1998-03-20 03:11 Christopher Luk <wluk@hkcccc.org>
  1998-03-20 12:07 ` Re: [INTERFACES] Security!!! Dr David Scott <ds@ganymede.com>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread

From: Christopher Luk @ 1998-03-20 03:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-interfaces

I wonder if my setting have problem or not. I found that there is no
security issue on my postgres95.

1. I have a super user postgres, however, when I login as somebody else
which should not have right to the postgres95 database, I can use the
following command to act as postgres super user.

   psql -u "database name"
   >>Username : postgres
   >>password : "anythingelse"

After this command, I can use the sql monitor as super user postgres,
which means that I can create, drop, update anything or destroy everything
on the database only if I can login to the server which have postgres95
installed.

2. I am using Postodbc as odbc driver on windows 95. Same as above, I can
login as anybody else without a password check even I use "alter user
[username] with password [password]" to add a password.

Walking through the documents, still didn't find any solution.
Please help if there is a solution to this problem. THx
(Linux 2.0.30 (standard), postgres 6.3, gcc 2.7, windows 95 OSR2)




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* Re: [INTERFACES] Security!!!
  1998-03-20 03:11 Security!!! Christopher Luk <wluk@hkcccc.org>
@ 1998-03-20 12:07 ` Dr David Scott <ds@ganymede.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread

From: Dr David Scott @ 1998-03-20 12:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christopher Luk <wluk@hkcccc.org>; +Cc: pgsql-interfaces

Check your postgres passwd file (_not_ the /etc/passwd file).  Sounds like
you have user postgres in it without a password. 

David Scott
Montreal




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* Security
@ 2001-05-19 06:16 Ernesto A. Lira Castro <lira@ver.megared.net.mx>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread

From: Ernesto A. Lira Castro @ 2001-05-19 06:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-interfaces

I'm trying to set login & passwords to my system with Perl DBI for
Postgresql, but i want to have a field on my Postgres's database
that can be type password!! is that possible?? i see only fields types
(Char, integer, long . . .) i want some password to be encrypted.


And where can i get some information for implementing that security on
my system!

Thanks
i hope for your answer




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* Security
@ 2001-05-19 06:36 Ernesto A. Lira Castro <lira@ver.megared.net.mx>
  2001-05-19 09:18 ` Re: Security Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
  2001-05-20 21:49 ` Re: Security Jeremy Buchmann <jeremy@wellsgaming.com>
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread

From: Ernesto A. Lira Castro @ 2001-05-19 06:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-interfaces


I'm trying to set login & passwords to my system with Perl DBI for
Postgresql, but i want to have a field on my Postgres's database
that can be type password!! is that possible?? i see only fields types
(Char, integer, long . . .) i want some password to be encrypted.


And where can i get some information for implementing that security on
my system!

Thanks
i hope for your answer



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* Re: Security
  2001-05-19 06:36 Security Ernesto A. Lira Castro <lira@ver.megared.net.mx>
@ 2001-05-19 09:18 ` Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread

From: Peter Eisentraut @ 2001-05-19 09:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ernesto A. Lira Castro <lira@ver.megared.net.mx>; +Cc: pgsql-interfaces

Ernesto A. Lira Castro writes:

> I'm trying to set login & passwords to my system with Perl DBI for
> Postgresql, but i want to have a field on my Postgres's database
> that can be type password!! is that possible?? i see only fields types
> (Char, integer, long . . .) i want some password to be encrypted.

In contrib/pgcrypto in the source tree there are some digest (hash)
functions (note: digest != encryption) that you might find useful.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter




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* Re: Security
  2001-05-19 06:36 Security Ernesto A. Lira Castro <lira@ver.megared.net.mx>
@ 2001-05-20 21:49 ` Jeremy Buchmann <jeremy@wellsgaming.com>
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread

From: Jeremy Buchmann @ 2001-05-20 21:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ernesto A. Lira Castro <lira@ver.megared.net.mx>; pgsql-interfaces

> I'm trying to set login & passwords to my system with Perl DBI for
> Postgresql, but i want to have a field on my Postgres's database
> that can be type password!! is that possible?? i see only fields types
> (Char, integer, long . . .) i want some password to be encrypted.

You can use MD5 or SHA perl modules to get a digest of the password and then
get the hex representation of the digest and store that in the database as a
char or varchar.

> And where can i get some information for implementing that security on
> my system!

The MD5 and SHA modules are on cpan.org.  I only have experience with the
MD5 module, but it's very simple to use, provided you know a little Perl.  I
can show you code if you don't understand the examples provided with the
module.

-- Jeremy  [jeremy@wellsgaming.com]




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* Security
@ 2001-07-02 03:03 Ernesto A. Lira Castro <lira@ver.megared.net.mx>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread

From: Ernesto A. Lira Castro @ 2001-07-02 03:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-interfaces

I'm trying to implement a Module mod_auth_pg95  "Postregres95
Authentication", but i couldn't use it, i wanna now if this module
already runs or have a bug ,or if somebody have a new version of this
module, i really need it.


Thanks

Ernesto




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2001-05-19 06:36 Security Ernesto A. Lira Castro <lira@ver.megared.net.mx>
2001-05-19 09:18 ` Re: Security Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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