| From: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 20:23:57 |
| Message-ID: | m3hereod9e.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> 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>.
Just a nit--the 'e' option is for Berkeley-style ps (/usr/ucb/ps on
Solaris). SysV ps doesn't have an equivalent from what I can see,
(though I may have missed it) and '-e' does something totally
different.
> I am unsure if Linux has this problem but it seems most other Unix's do.
Modern versions (of Linux) don't seem to--you can see the env for your
processes but not for others'.
-Doug
--
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
--T. J. Jackson, 1863
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