| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> |
| Cc: | postgresbugs <postgresbugs(at)grifent(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PGPASSWORD |
| Date: | 2005-02-27 10:53:01 |
| Message-ID: | 4221A68D.9090700@pse-consulting.de |
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Oliver Jowett wrote:
> postgresbugs wrote:
>
>> The functionality provided by PGPASSWORD should not be removed unless
>> there is a functionality other than .pgpass, which is fine for some
>> uses and not for others, that will provide similar functionality. That
>> could be psql and pg_dump and the like accepting a password on the
>> command line as I stated earlier.
>
>
> Putting the password on the command line would be even more of a
> security problem than PGPASSWORD is now. I agree that an alternative to
> ,pgpass would be useful, but it needs to be a *secure* alternative.
The command line could take a file handle of an inherited pipe.
Regards,
Andreas
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