From: Florian G. Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, 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, 08 Jul 2008 21:12:40 +0200
Message-ID: <4873BC28.3070507@phlo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807080935.33186.josh@agliodbs.com>
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> 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.
I'd be *very* interested in how they come to that assessment. I'd have
thought that the only alternative to getpeereid/getupeercred is
password-based or certificate-based authenticated - which seem *less*
secure because a) they also rely on the client having the correct uid
or gid (to read the password/private key), plus b) the risk of the
password/private key getting into the wrong hands.
How is that sort of authenticated handled by services shipping with solaris?
regards, Florian Pflug, hoping to be enlightened beyond his limited
posix-ish view of the world...
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