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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:47:06 +0000
From: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
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To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Tony Caduto <tony_caduto@amsoftwaredesign.com>,
	pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Password issue revisited
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>>> Just to make things clear, this wouldn't be about another auth method.
>>> Windows has an API to store arbitrary passwords in a "secure way". At
>>> least it does in XP+, not sure if it was in 2000.
>> Would it really solve Tony's problem though? I'm not familiar with the
>> API you're thinking of, but do be useful to us it must be able to give
>> the unencrypted passwords back to us, and therefore anything else
>> pretending to be us.
> 
> yeah, but it pops up a GUI notification for you. It's what IE uses to
> store things like passports. It's also used, IIRC, by the new RDP client
> that's available, and a few more.
> Did a quick check, and it's XP/2003 only. See
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302353.aspx.

That would break all the non-interactive apps that we recommend using
pgpass with to prevent storing passwords in even less secure places.

Regards, Dave.