Re: worried about PGPASSWORD drop - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: worried about PGPASSWORD drop
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0208281201560.2175-100000@cm-lcon1-46-187.cm.vtr.net
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In response to Re: worried about PGPASSWORD drop  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: worried about PGPASSWORD drop  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian dijo:

> Tom Lane wrote:

> > If you want to put in security restrictions that are actually useful,
> > where is the code to verify that PGPASSWORDFILE points at a
> > non-world-readable file?  That needs to be there now, not later, or
> > we'll have people moaning about backward compatibility when we finally
> > do plug that hole.
>
> Agreed.

Point taken, will look into it later.

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