Re: pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

On 5/19/21 2:48 PM, Ron wrote:
> On 5/19/21 1:34 PM, David Steele wrote:
>> On 5/19/21 1:49 PM, Ron wrote:
>>>
>>> Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root 
>>> and 633 perms.  Normally, that's ok, but is a horrible idea when it's 
>>> a plaintext file, and stores the pgbackrest encryption password.
>>>
>>> Would pgbackrest (or something else) break if I change it to 
>>> postgres:postgres 600 perms?
>>
>> Nothing will break as far as I know. As long as pgbackrest can read 
>> the file it will be happy.
>>
>>> Is there a better way of hiding the password so that only user 
>>> postgres can see it?
>>
>> You could use an environment variable in postgres' environment, see 
>> https://pgbackrest.org/command.html#introduction.
>>
>> In this case it would be PGBACKREST_REPO1_CIPHER_PASS=xxx
> 
> Similarly there's PGBACKREST_REPO1_CIPHER_TYPE?

All options can be set through the environment. See the link for details.

Regards,
-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net