On 13 Apr 2010, at 2:36, John R Pierce wrote:
> Alban Hertroys wrote:
>> Storing those passwords encrypted on the client side seems the proper way to deal with this issue. IMHO, time working on that is better spent than time trying to prevent .pgpass files from working.
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> afaik, the .pgpass file is something the user creates with his text editor. if it was encrypted or hashed, there would need to be a client side utility to create it.
Yes of course, something like ssh-keygen(1) for example.
Alban Hertroys
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