hey,
kind of a simple question. How can you show the rules/triggers on a database
using psql. Even better: how can you show all rules/triggers/constrains/etc
that pertain to a given table?
as always...thanks.
--tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:06 AM
To: Anthony Metzidis
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PG_PWD and PG_PASSWORD Security
Anthony Metzidis writes:
> Is there any way to keep postgres from saving the passwords in plain
> text?
No.
> This seems to be a huge security hole.
No, because the directory that contains these files shouldn't be world
readable. The issue has been noted though, but no one has implemented a
better solution yet.
> I thought that passwords were to be saved in PG_SHADOW. What is
> PG_SHADOW for anyway?
Pg_shadow is the system catalog table that stores the user information,
such as user name and password. The pg_pwd file is a plain text dump of
pg_shadow, which is necessary because at the time the password is needed
(during the connection attempt), the system can't read the pg_shadow table
yet (because it's not connected yet, sort of).
--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/
