Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-10-16T18:47:05Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> writes:
> Στις 16/10/24 19:47, ο/η Tom Lane έγραψε:
>> I believe it depends on your platform --- some BSDen are pretty
>> permissive about this, if memory serves.  On a Linux box it seems

> As of FreeBSD smadevnu 14.1-RELEASE-p5 , only the user and root can view 
> the env, such as PGPASSWORD of a user. Other users can't.

NetBSD 10 seems to behave the same.  I don't have a recent OpenBSD
installation to try.

			regards, tom lane