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Re: Best way to "mask" password in DBLINK

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Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I'm starting to use DBLink / DBI-Link and one of the "bad" things is that
the password is out in the clear.
What can I do to prevent it from being such? How do I protect it from
'innocent' users?

If I'm not mistaken, it's possible to put your password in the .pgpass file in the postgres-users home folder, on the server where the postgres cluster is running.

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Tommy Gildseth

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