Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens
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Msg-id 200111280611.fAS6BAg22852@candle.pha.pa.us
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> It's not that it's "okay", it's that we haven't got any good
> alternatives.  Password auth sucks from a convenience point of view
> (or even from a possibility point of view, for scripts; don't forget
> the changes that you yourself recently applied to guarantee that a
> script *cannot* supply a password to psql).  Ident auth doesn't work,
> or isn't secure, in a lot of cases.  Kerberos, well, not a lot to
> offer there either.  What else do you want to make the default?

Someone, somewhere, please help us.  :-)

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