| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jeff MacDonald <jeff(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gene Sokolov <hook(at)aktrad(dot)ru>, Jan Wieck <jwieck(at)debis(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Updated TODO list |
| Date: | 1999-07-14 15:14:00 |
| Message-ID: | 199907141514.LAA23017@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > I think the original point was that some people use the same or related
> > passwords for psql as for their login password.
>
> This may sound cold, but isn't that their own problem. I can remmeber
> being told the first time i needed a passwd "don't reuse this" .
> There should come a tiem when people take their own security a little
> more into their own hands, but hey that's just me :)
This may be the issue. If we decided the postgres user has to be able
to know the password, we are stuck requiring people to use a different
password for the database if the postgres user is not trusted as much as
the system owner.
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