[Cialug] hiding a publicly accessible database server

[Paul Gray]

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 On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> Hi, I'm conceiving an application that would like to use a centralized
> postgres database. For my idea to work best it would be nice if the
> application could make a connection to the postgres server on demand
> without the user having to do anything. Yet I really don't want to put
> the database wide open to the web. So its a conundrum.

It seems like stunnel with certificate authentication for the client
would be another viable, easy-to-implement approach.

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