Re: [GENERAL] worried about PGPASSWORD drop

En Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:33:34 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> escribió:

> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Here is some code from postmaster.c that may help:

Thank you. Patch attached. Note that it also checks group access; I think
that is desired as well.

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