Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: mbork(at)mbork(dot)pl
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?
Date: 2024-10-16 14:37:11
Message-ID: 202410161437.sw2xkl37rcmz@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2024-Oct-16, mbork(at)mbork(dot)pl wrote:

> I understand why giving the password on the command line or in an
> environment variable is a security risk (because of `ps`), but I do not
> understand why `psql` doesn't have an option like `--password-command`
> accepting a command which then prints the password on stdout. For
> example, I could then use `pass` (https://www.passwordstore.org/) with
> gpg-agent.

We had a patch to add PGPASSCOMMAND once:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAE35ztOGZqgwae3mBA%3DL97pSg3kvin2xycQh%3Dir%3D5NiwCApiYQ%40mail.gmail.com

I don't remember the overall conclusions (other than the patch being
rejected), but maybe you can give that a read.

--
Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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