| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [BUGS] More SSL questions.. |
| Date: | 2005-01-05 18:18:44 |
| Message-ID: | 41DC2F84.6030803@dunslane.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>
>
>>Excellent. I would suggest that we allow an environment variable PGHOME to
>>override this on all platforms, falling back to the above on Windows and
>>HOME elsewhere.
>>
>>
>
>Given that this code is mainly used to find security-critical files
>(.pgpass and SSL certificates), I'm not sure that an override is a good
>idea. I'm not dead set against it though --- any other opinions out
>there?
>
>
>
>
If that's a valid concern (and it might well be) then we shouldn't rely
on any environment variable, including HOME - on Unix at least one could
use getpwent() and friends.
cheers
andrew
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