From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Dan Scott <danieljamesscott@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Change user password
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:43:11 -0700
Message-ID: <dcc563d10812092043o48465a6bj1ce16182c3dda7ca@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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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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