Re: Best way to "mask" password in DBLINK

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tommy Gildseth [mailto:tommy.gildseth@usit.uio.no]
>
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>>> I'm starting to use DBLink / DBI-Link and one of the "bad" things is that
>>> the password is out in the clear.
>>> What can I do to prevent it from being such? How do I protect it from
>>> 'innocent' users?
>
>> If I'm not mistaken, it's possible to put your password in the .pgpass
>> file in the postgres-users home folder, on the server where the postgres
>> cluster is running.
>
> Isn't that how one connects using the CLI? Eg: via psql?
>
> My connection string looks like this.
>
> SELECT aaa
>    FROM dblink('dbname=hmxmms host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx user=yyy
> password=zzz'::text, 'SELECT * from tablename'::text) b4(aaa xxx );
>
> I've placed the above as a view hence the user/pass is being hardcoded(?) of
> sorts

Just leave out the "password=zzz" part of the connection string.

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Tommy Gildseth