Re: Log of CREATE USER statement

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Ricardo Vaz - TCESP" <jrvaz(at)tce(dot)sp(dot)gov(dot)br>
Subject: Re: Log of CREATE USER statement
Date: 2005-12-09 18:41:35
Message-ID: 200512091941.36056.peter_e@gmx.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> As I said already, if the user wishes the password to be secure, he
> needs to encrypt it on the client side.

Maybe we should provide a backslash command in psql for secure password
entry, say, \password [username]. This would then ask for the password
through a somewhat secure, unlogged channel, encrypt it, and send an
ALTER ROLE command to the server.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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