| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens |
| Date: | 2001-11-28 20:00:07 |
| Message-ID: | 200111282000.fASK07h01060@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I will document the security problem with PGPASSWORD and add a TODO item
> > to remove it in 7.3. Is that OK with everyone?
>
> I don't think we should remove it. Documenting that using it is a
> security risk on some platforms seems a good idea, however.
OK, new text is:
<envar>PGPASSWORD</envar>
sets the password used if the backend demands password
authentication. This is not recommended because the password can
be read by others using <command>ps -e</command>.
I am unsure if Linux has this problem but it seems most other Unix's do.
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