> On Dec 1, 2022, at 05:45, Rizwan Shaukat <rizwan.shaukat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > we hv requiremnt from security to secure pg_hba.conf file was encryption or password protected on server to protect ip visibilty because these server access by application n thy can amend as well. how we can achive it pls The only practical way of securing pg_hba.conf is to secure access to the Linux user that PostgreSQL is running as (assuming you are on Linux, of course). That user will need to open and read the file, so there's no way of securing it against that user.
