SSH is a protocol for secure, remote logins and file copying; and OpenSSH, provided with most Linux distributions, is its most popular implementation. This recipe, selected from Chapter 6 on “Protecting Outgoing Network Connections,” shows you how to use public-key authentication to prove your identity to a remote OpenSSH server, a technique more secure than using login passwords.
Authenticating PostgreSQL Clients
Today’s article is about security (authentication in particular) in PostgreSQL, the most advanced open-source database available anywhere (as its developers claim!!). So what about it? We know that security is a very important concern in the present day IT world. It’s no different with databases.