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Re: pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

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On 5/19/21 1:34 PM, David Steele wrote:
On 5/19/21 1:49 PM, Ron wrote:
Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root and 
633 perms.  Normally, that's ok, but is a horrible idea when it's a 
plaintext file, and stores the pgbackrest encryption password.
Would pgbackrest (or something else) break if I change it to 
postgres:postgres 600 perms?
Nothing will break as far as I know. As long as pgbackrest can read the 
file it will be happy.
Is there a better way of hiding the password so that only user postgres can see it?
You could use an environment variable in postgres' environment, see 
https://pgbackrest.org/command.html#introduction.
In this case it would be PGBACKREST_REPO1_CIPHER_PASS=xxx

Regards,
That worked after I exported the environment variables.

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