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* Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?
@ 2024-10-16 18:29 Achilleas Mantzios <[email protected]>
  2024-10-16 18:47 ` Re: What are best practices wrt passwords? Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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From: Achilleas Mantzios @ 2024-10-16 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]


Στις 16/10/24 19:47, ο/η Tom Lane έγραψε:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 06:16:57PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
>>> `ps auxe` shows all processes with their environments, no?
>> I think that only shows for super-user.
> I believe it depends on your platform --- some BSDen are pretty
> permissive about this, if memory serves.  On a Linux box it seems


As of FreeBSD smadevnu 14.1-RELEASE-p5 , only the user and root can view 
the env, such as PGPASSWORD of a user. Other users can't.


> to work for processes owned by yourself even if you're not superuser.
>
> 			regards, tom lane
>
>






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* Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?
  2024-10-16 18:29 Re: What are best practices wrt passwords? Achilleas Mantzios <[email protected]>
@ 2024-10-16 18:47 ` Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2024-10-16 18:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Achilleas Mantzios <[email protected]>; +Cc: [email protected]

Achilleas Mantzios <[email protected]> writes:
> Στις 16/10/24 19:47, ο/η Tom Lane έγραψε:
>> I believe it depends on your platform --- some BSDen are pretty
>> permissive about this, if memory serves.  On a Linux box it seems

> As of FreeBSD smadevnu 14.1-RELEASE-p5 , only the user and root can view 
> the env, such as PGPASSWORD of a user. Other users can't.

NetBSD 10 seems to behave the same.  I don't have a recent OpenBSD
installation to try.

			regards, tom lane






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