Re: Password as a command line argument to createuser - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Password as a command line argument to createuser
Date
Msg-id 20071219224308.GB847@crankycanuck.ca
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In response to Re: Password as a command line argument to createuser  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:38:52AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> reading the password from /dev/tty, so if you want to script this, you'd
> be stuck with making a special-purpose program that didn't.

But given that passwords are sort of awful in this way anyway, why not use
something designed not to have this problem, like Kerberos?  Especially now
that someone has been doing the work to make Kerberos play nicely in the
latest and greatest ways?

A

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