| From: | "Peter J(dot) Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: What are best practices wrt passwords? |
| Date: | 2024-10-16 21:27:15 |
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On 2024-10-16 09:50:41 -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote:
> > On Oct 16, 2024, at 09:47, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > I believe it depends on your platform --- some BSDen are pretty
> > permissive about this, if memory serves. On a Linux box it seems
> > to work for processes owned by yourself even if you're not superuser.
>
> I just tried it on an (admittedly kind of old) Ubuntu system and MacOS
> 14, and it looks like shows everything owned by everyone, even from a
> non-sudoer user.
On Linux, unprivileged users can only see the environment of their own
processes since a *very* long time ago. Possibly even before Ubuntu even
existed. So I'm somewhat sceptical about that. Some other Unixes were
more permissive. I don't know what camp MacOS falls into.
hp
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