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> Dear friends :
>
> I'm working with PostgreSQL for about 2 month and half. I've been
> searching in the mail lists in order to find information about two
> critical doubts, without success. Here they're :
>
> PS : ( I've installed PostgreSQL 6.4.2 under Linux Red-Hat 5.2 )
> ( I've got a RPM to install it. )
>
> 1) - PostgreSQL creates a file that is well-known : "pg_pwd". The trouble
> is this file, which contains the passwords of all users, is perfectly
> readable for any user in the linux-system. Is there a way to hide the
> password information from other normal users? I know that you can create
> users with crypted passwords manually. But I would like to hide even the
> crypted passwords from other users, like shadow in Linux.
The /data directory is only readable by user postgres, no?
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