Re: Directory/File Access Permissions for COPY and Generic File Access Functions

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Adam Brightwell <adam(dot)brightwell(at)crunchydatasolutions(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Directory/File Access Permissions for COPY and Generic File Access Functions
Date: 2014-10-29 23:59:01
Message-ID: 54517F45.6040707@gmx.net
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On 10/29/14 3:41 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 10/29/14, 2:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Capture the postmaster log. Keep on capturing it till somebody
>> fat-fingers their login to the extent of swapping the username and
>> password (yeah, I've done that, haven't you?).
>
> Which begs the question: why on earth do we log passwords at all?

We don't.

> This is a problem for ALTER ROLE too.

Only if you use the non-encrypted forms.

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