Re: prevent connection using pgpass.conf

From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: Christophe Dore <c(dot)dore(at)castsoftware(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: prevent connection using pgpass.conf
Date: 2010-03-31 16:59:31
Message-ID: 4BB37F73.2060004@iol.ie
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On 31/03/2010 16:32, Christophe Dore wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are building a solution using some dedicated postgresql servers (and
> dedicated C++ and Java apps). For security reasons, we'd like to prevent
> users to connect (from our apps at least) to those servers with
> passwords stored in files such as pgpass.conf.

Unless I'm mistaken, my understanding is that pgpass files are stored on
client machines, not the server, so if the clients are connecting from
different machines this shouldn't be a problem in the first place.

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
rod(at)iol(dot)ie

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