Re: Service configuration file and password security

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:57 PM, JP Jacoupy <jpjacoupy(at)protonmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Can the password be stored in an encrypted way inside a service
> configuration file?

There is not

Passwords are not stored in the ( sometimes shared, world readable )
service configuration file ( pg_sevice), but it the UNREADABLE FOR
OTHERS password file. They need to be stored in a way which libpq and
friends can use, so even if they were encrypted they could be
extracted easily byjust debugging and setting a breakpoint in it.

If you are looking at something like a password store with a master
password at least in unix a user account with a .pgpass file works as
it. You store every password in file readable by a user, .pgpass, and
you use that user login credentials to get access to it.

Francisco Olarte.