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

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: firoz e v <firoz(dot)ev(at)huawei(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Storing the password in .pgpass file in an encrypted format
Date: 2014-02-21 23:02:32
Message-ID: 5307DB08.3020709@agliodbs.com
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On 02/21/2014 09:11 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> What I think might be useful and safe at the same time is encrypted
> .pgpass with tools asking for the encryption key. Think of it as a simple
> passord wallet - not really useful if you're connecting to a single
> database, very useful if you have many as you only need to remember the
> single password.

Sounds interesting, but probably better as an external utility than as
part of PostgreSQL. Call it pgWallet.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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