Re: Have an encrypted pgpass file

Moin,

On Wed, July 18, 2018 7:25 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Seems to me that passing %-specifiers to the command would make it more
>> useful (%u for "user", "host" etc) -- your command could refuse to give
>> you a password for the superuser account for instance but grant one for
>> a read-only user.
>
> It would also provide a *very* fertile source of shell-script-injection
> vulnerabilities. (Whaddya mean, you tried to use a user name with a
> quote mark in it?)

Little Bobby Tables, we call him. :)

I'm also concerned that that would let anybody who could alter the
environment then let arbitrary code be run as user postgres. Is this
something that poses a risk in addition to the current situation?

Best regards,

Tels