Re: prevent connection using pgpass.conf

Christophe Dore wrote:
> Thanks for answering
>
> Yes, you are right. This is a client-side file. However, our concern is
> that we have to consider this practice as a security issue. We'd like to
> ban this practice for our product which is, thus, wrapping PostgresQL
> engine. Thus my questions
>
> - is there any configuration that can be done on server side to prevent
> the client side to use such file to read passwords ?
> - is there any options that can be set in postgres libpq C library to
> prevent the connection functions to search for password in files ?
>


where do you want the client apps to get the passwords from?  hard
coded? an application read .inf file?