Re: user privilages for executing pg_autovacuum?

If I put password in pgpass file it's still a plain text. How to hide it ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Zlatko Mati?" <zlatko(dot)matic1(at)sb(dot)t-com(dot)hr>; "Matthew T. O'Connor"
<matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>; <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] user privilages for executing pg_autovacuum?

> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:39:24PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> =?iso-8859-2?Q?Zlatko_Mati=E6?= <zlatko(dot)matic1(at)sb(dot)t-com(dot)hr> writes:
>> > That's the reason why I ask. If a user that executes pg_autovacuum must
>> > be
>> > owner of tables or a superuser, that it is a security problem to pass
>> > password as plain text...
>> > How peple solve this problem ?
>>
>> Put the password in a ~/.pgpass file belonging to the user that runs the
>> autovacuum task.
>
> Or you can run pg_autovacuum on the server itself and allow ident
> authentication for unix sockets (assuming you're on unix/linux).
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