Re: Log of CREATE USER statement - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Log of CREATE USER statement
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Msg-id 200512091941.36056.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Log of CREATE USER statement  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> As I said already, if the user wishes the password to be secure, he
> needs to encrypt it on the client side.

Maybe we should provide a backslash command in psql for secure password 
entry, say, \password [username].  This would then ask for the password 
through a somewhat secure, unlogged channel, encrypt it, and send an 
ALTER ROLE command to the server.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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