Re: Password as a command line argument to createuser

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Password as a command line argument to createuser
Date: 2007-12-19 22:43:08
Message-ID: 20071219224308.GB847@crankycanuck.ca
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:38:52AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> reading the password from /dev/tty, so if you want to script this, you'd
> be stuck with making a special-purpose program that didn't.

But given that passwords are sort of awful in this way anyway, why not use
something designed not to have this problem, like Kerberos? Especially now
that someone has been doing the work to make Kerberos play nicely in the
latest and greatest ways?

A

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