Re: Storing the password in .pgpass file in an encrypted format

From: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>
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 02:15:00
Message-ID: CAM-w4HM3v2j1j4_J+mUzXa2eH-tJT6QTzLutYZcLp2_rD72ouA@mail.gmail.com
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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?

--
greg

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