Re: storing passwords - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Laurent Wandrebeck
Subject Re: storing passwords
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Msg-id fc593b510811050959o3f9d4e84m935a03bc1a5a9d5a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to storing passwords  ("Brandon Metcalf" <bmetcalf@nortel.com>)
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2008/11/5 Brandon Metcalf <bmetcalf@nortel.com>:
> We have a number of automated jobs that connect to our pgsql DB and
> I'm wondering what others are doing for authentication and securing
> passwords.  It's easy enough to hardcode a password, but is there
> something specific to pgsql, perhaps, that would be a better solution?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html may
do the trick.

Regards,
Laurent.

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