| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Storing the password in .pgpass file in an encrypted format |
| Date: | 2014-02-22 02:29:18 |
| Message-ID: | 53080B7E.40807@agliodbs.com |
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On 02/21/2014 03:54 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> Depends on how you define external utility. It certainly needs to be
> somehow integrated with the tools using .pgpass. Do you have something
> particular in mind?
Yeah, I was thinking that the ideal would to be to make this generically
pluggable, like giving the ability to use a unix socket or executable
call for pgpass instead of only looking at a file. I don't think we
should implement any particular wallet technology, just make it possible
to call an external application. I think implementing our own wallet
would be a big mistake.
I'm not sure how broad the actual use case for this is -- most folks
with sophisticated password needs use AD or LDAP -- but if someone wants
to write the code, I'd be for accepting it.
--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
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