Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Achilleas Mantzios <a(dot)mantzios(at)cloud(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?
Date: 2024-10-16 18:47:05
Message-ID: 208345.1729104425@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Achilleas Mantzios <a(dot)mantzios(at)cloud(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com> writes:
> Στις 16/10/24 19:47, ο/η Tom Lane έγραψε:
>> I believe it depends on your platform --- some BSDen are pretty
>> permissive about this, if memory serves. On a Linux box it seems

> As of FreeBSD smadevnu 14.1-RELEASE-p5 , only the user and root can view
> the env, such as PGPASSWORD of a user. Other users can't.

NetBSD 10 seems to behave the same. I don't have a recent OpenBSD
installation to try.

regards, tom lane

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