Re: prevent connection using pgpass.conf

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 17:32 +0200, Christophe Dore wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are building a solution using some dedicated postgresql servers (and
> dedicated C++ and Java apps). For security reasons, we'd like to prevent
> users to connect (from our apps at least) to those servers with
> passwords stored in files such as pgpass.conf.


>
>
> Is there any configuration that can be done, on the server side, or in
> the C++ and/or java application side, so to prevent such thing ?
>

Don't let your users log in to the Windows machine as users that have
access to those files.

Joshua D. Drake


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