| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PATCH: warn about, and deprecate, clear text passwords |
| Date: | 2025-03-17 13:19:27 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZe1Yguej5PTo7QL11uHy3pFyk_zeL4SLPuvKq9JMn2MQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM David G. Johnston
<david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> It could also be:
>
> warning: your password is known to Big Brother
> hint: use psql \password to supply a private password, or see “docs/wiki page” for more details and a way to pre-compute and send a private password via SQL.
OK, that's actually a fair point. It's still true, though, that all
the complaints that I hear about this are of the form "someone MIGHT
do something that puts their password in a log file" and a warning
doesn't stop that.
Granted, other people may hear different complaints than I do.
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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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