| From: | Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: | 2014-02-22 02:50:30 |
| Message-ID: | CAAZKuFYgAa+JaNKaWUc-QpW8bODUxch8XSp75EXQvqiq5dqC4A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
>> I'm still in interested in this idea and haven't found a good reason
>> to rescind the general thinking there.
>
> It's an interesting idea. I wonder if it would be possible to make it
> compatible with existing tools like ssh-agent instead of inventing our
> own?
I don't understand what you mean: the aesthetic of that proposal was
to act as pure delegation insomuch as possible to integrate with other
programs, and the supplementary programs provided that I wrote just
for the purposes of demonstration are short.
(https://github.com/fdr/pq-resolvers, if you want to read the program texts)
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