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Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?

Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>

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From: Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, mbork@mbork.pl, Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2024-10-16T16:50:41Z
Lists: pgsql-general 

> On Oct 16, 2024, at 09:47, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I believe it depends on your platform --- some BSDen are pretty
> permissive about this, if memory serves.  On a Linux box it seems
> to work for processes owned by yourself even if you're not superuser.

I just tried it on an (admittedly kind of old) Ubuntu system and MacOS 14, and it looks like shows everything owned by everyone, even from a non-sudoer user.