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From: Dan Scott <danieljamesscott@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Change user password
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:42:28 -0500
Message-ID: <6835906b0812050742t279c9f04r18218cff3d79eb78@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

Is is possible to modify a user password using a command line script?
I know about the ALTER USER command from within the client, but this
looks like it's quite insecure, storing the password in the history. I
know it's possible to insert the encrypted password with ALTER USER
but that means generating the hash elsewhere. A simple 'alteruser -P
username' which then prompts for the user password would be nice. Does
this exist?

Thanks,

Dan Scott



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