If I put password in pgpass file it's still a plain text. How to hide it ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Zlatko Mati?" <zlatko.matic1@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Matthew T. O'Connor"
<matthew@xxxxxxxx>; <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: user privilages for executing pg_autovacuum?
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:39:24PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
=?iso-8859-2?Q?Zlatko_Mati=E6?= <zlatko.matic1@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> That's the reason why I ask. If a user that executes pg_autovacuum must
> be
> owner of tables or a superuser, that it is a security problem to pass
> password as plain text...
> How peple solve this problem ?
Put the password in a ~/.pgpass file belonging to the user that runs the
autovacuum task.
Or you can run pg_autovacuum on the server itself and allow ident
authentication for unix sockets (assuming you're on unix/linux).
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