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* Change user password
@ 2008-12-05 15:42 Dan Scott <danieljamesscott@gmail.com>
  2008-12-10 04:34 ` Re: Change user password Quan Zongliang <quanzongliang@gmail.com>
  2008-12-10 04:43 ` Re: Change user password Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
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From: Dan Scott @ 2008-12-05 15:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-admin

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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* Re: Change user password
  2008-12-05 15:42 Change user password Dan Scott <danieljamesscott@gmail.com>
@ 2008-12-10 04:34 ` Quan Zongliang <quanzongliang@gmail.com>
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From: Quan Zongliang @ 2008-12-10 04:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Scott <danieljamesscott@gmail.com>; +Cc: pgsql-admin

Hi, Scott

It seems no such command exists.

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Quan Zongliang
quanzongliang@gmail.com
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* Re: Change user password
  2008-12-05 15:42 Change user password Dan Scott <danieljamesscott@gmail.com>
@ 2008-12-10 04:43 ` Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
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From: Scott Marlowe @ 2008-12-10 04:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Scott <danieljamesscott@gmail.com>; +Cc: pgsql-admin

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Dan Scott <danieljamesscott@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

\password from the psql prompt does that.



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* Change user password
@ 2008-12-08 14:36 Daniel Scott <djscott@mit.edu>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread

From: Daniel Scott @ 2008-12-08 14:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-admin

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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