On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 15:25 +0200, Dominique Devienne wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 2:50 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There is an existing solution for that: the libpq connection service file: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgservice.html > > The problem with the service and password files is that passwords are in plain text though. > Yes there are restrictions on permissions of the password file (on Linux), still having some > kind of encrypted token with an expiration date would be better IMHO. You don't store a password in the connection service file. Yours, Laurenz Albe
