| From: | Andrej Czapszys <czapszys(at)comcast(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PGPASSWORD and client tools |
| Date: | 2004-08-19 04:18:28 |
| Message-ID: | 41242A14.1000204@comcast.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> It's deprecated because it's insecure, on platforms where other users can
>
>see the environment variables passed to pg_dump (which apparently is
>quite a few variants of Unix). You wouldn't pass the password on the
>command line either ...
>
>Painful as .pgpass may be for an admin tool, I do not know of any other
>method I'd recommend on a multiuser machine.
>
>
>
Another possibility would be to add a switch like --password-fd=n
indicating an inherited file descriptor from which the password could be
read. That's not any easier than dynamic .pgpass, but it avoids
all filesystem permissions issues.
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