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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:33:01 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 06:16:57PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> On 2024-10-16, at 14:41, Dominique Devienne <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 2:25 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I'd like to be able to use psql without typing passwords again and
> >> again.  I know about `.pgpass` and PGPASSFILE, but I specifically do not
> >> want to use it - I have the password in the `.env` file, and having it
> >> in _two_ places comes with its own set of problems, like how to make
> >> sure they don't get out of sync.
> >
> > What's wrong with PGPASSWORD?
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-envars.html
> 
> `ps auxe` shows all processes with their environments, no?

I think that only shows for super-user.

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