From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Garick Hamlin <ghamlin@isc.upenn.edu>
Cc: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Solaris ident authentication using unix domain sockets
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:35:32 -0700
Message-ID: <200807080935.33186.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23040.1215319905@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Tom,
> Indeed. If the Solaris folk feel that getupeercred() is insecure,
> they had better explain why their kernel is that broken. This is
> entirely unrelated to the known shortcomings of the "ident" IP
> protocol.
The Solaris security & kernel folks do, actually. However, there's no
question that TRUST is inherently insecure, and that's what people are going
to use if they can't get IDENT to work.
--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
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