Re: Storing the password in .pgpass file in an encrypted format

From: Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>
To: firoz e v <firoz(dot)ev(at)huawei(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Storing the password in .pgpass file in an encrypted format
Date: 2014-02-21 14:50:03
Message-ID: 5307679B.6050606@timbira.com.br
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On 21-02-2014 09:49, firoz e v wrote:
> Even though, there are ways to set the permissions on .pgpass, to disallow any access to world or group, the security rules of many organizations disallow to hold any kind of passwords, as plain text.
>
Is your goal hiding the password in .pgpass? You could add support to
accept md5... storage format as password.

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