Re: Have an encrypted pgpass file

On 07/18/2018 04:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Seems to me that passing %-specifiers to the command would make it more
>> useful (%u for "user", "host" etc) -- your command could refuse to give
>> you a password for the superuser account for instance but grant one for
>> a read-only user.
> It would also provide a *very* fertile source of shell-script-injection
> vulnerabilities.  (Whaddya mean, you tried to use a user name with a
> quote mark in it?)
>
> This is exactly the kind of area in which I'm concerned for the
> possibility of sloppily-written scripts being a net negative for
> security.

Although I appreciate the concern, can we not worried about this? Your 
argument basically boils down to: Dumb will be Dumb. That will not 
change no matter what we do as is obvious by the number of people STILL 
using postgres as their connected web app user. The usability of this 
feature if fleshed out correctly is pretty large.

JD

>             regards, tom lane
>

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