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