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Re: Securing .pgpass File?

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On 10/02/2012 04:19 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

- Punt. Check in the password but set the access controls so it only
   work for very few IPs, then you only need to worry about people who
   can log into *those* machines.  Which is controlled by public SSH
   keys which you can check-in safely.  Not super safe, but for
   read-only accounts for e.g.  nagios might be ok.

I think this is the right answer for us. :) I'll just go through each specialized user we have now (replication, performance metrics, slony) and make IP->IP locked-down cases for all of them.

It just feels wrong, somehow. :)

Thanks again, everyone!

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