Re: Super user password explicit in patroni yml - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: Super user password explicit in patroni yml
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In response to Super user password explicit in patroni yml  (kamal deen <kamaldeendba@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM kamal deen <kamaldeendba@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
[snip] 
And also pls share the best way to rotate the DB user password in postgres.

I wrote a shell script to generate(*) a password, run the ALTER ROLE command, push the VALID UNTIL out by 3 months, and either(**) "sed edit .pgpass" or send the user an email with the new password.

*Via picking two random words from /usr/share/dict/words, a random 2 digit number, concatenated with a period.  "openssl rand -base64 48" works, too.  Got the basics from a StackExchange post.

**Depending on the user

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