Re: pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

On 5/19/21 1:34 PM, David Steele wrote:
> On 5/19/21 1:49 PM, Ron wrote:
>>
>> Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root and
>> 633 perms.  Normally, that's ok, but is a horrible idea when it's a
>> plaintext file, and stores the pgbackrest encryption password.
>>
>> Would pgbackrest (or something else) break if I change it to
>> postgres:postgres 600 perms?
>
> Nothing will break as far as I know. As long as pgbackrest can read the
> file it will be happy.
>
>> Is there a better way of hiding the password so that only user postgres
>> can see it?
>
> You could use an environment variable in postgres' environment, see
> https://pgbackrest.org/command.html#introduction.
>
> In this case it would be PGBACKREST_REPO1_CIPHER_PASS=xxx
>
> Regards,

That worked after I exported the environment variables.

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