| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, firoz e v <firoz(dot)ev(at)huawei(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Storing the password in .pgpass file in an encrypted format |
| Date: | 2014-02-21 15:37:35 |
| Message-ID: | 20140221153735.GE28858@alap3.anarazel.de |
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On 2014-02-21 12:04:47 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> You could instead try to have an authentication agent that stores an
> encrypted password or certificate and asks the user to supply the key to
> decrypt it when trying to establish a connection; but that would force
> you to require user intervention, which in many cases you don't want.
Alternatively use something like kerberos.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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