Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?

From: Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, mbork(at)mbork(dot)pl, Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?
Date: 2024-10-16 16:50:41
Message-ID: B3A1837B-FA96-42A4-A6D4-949E93EB267C@thebuild.com
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> On Oct 16, 2024, at 09:47, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I believe it depends on your platform --- some BSDen are pretty
> permissive about this, if memory serves. On a Linux box it seems
> to work for processes owned by yourself even if you're not superuser.

I just tried it on an (admittedly kind of old) Ubuntu system and MacOS 14, and it looks like shows everything owned by everyone, even from a non-sudoer user.

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