Re: Best way to "mask" password in DBLINK

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:30, Ow Mun Heng<ow.mun.heng@wdc.com> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tommy Gildseth [mailto:tommy.gildseth@usit.uio.no]
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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?
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>>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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> Isn't that how one connects using the CLI? Eg: via psql?

You need to put it in the .pgpass file of the postgres user - the one
that runs the server. .pgpass is dealt with by libpq, and DBLink and
DBI-Link both use libpq to connect to the remote server.

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