Re: What are best practices wrt passwords? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?
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Msg-id 208345.1729104425@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?  (Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com>)
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Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> writes:
> Στις 16/10/24 19:47, ο/η Tom Lane έγραψε:
>> I believe it depends on your platform --- some BSDen are pretty
>> permissive about this, if memory serves.  On a Linux box it seems

> As of FreeBSD smadevnu 14.1-RELEASE-p5 , only the user and root can view 
> the env, such as PGPASSWORD of a user. Other users can't.

NetBSD 10 seems to behave the same.  I don't have a recent OpenBSD
installation to try.

            regards, tom lane



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