Re: pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

2021-05-22 Thread Ron
On 5/22/21 5:52 AM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2021-05-19 12:49:42 -0500, Ron wrote: Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root and 633 perms. Did you mean 644? 633 would be very strange permissions (write and execute but not read for group and others). Yes, I noticed

Re: pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

2021-05-22 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2021-05-19 12:49:42 -0500, Ron wrote: > Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root and 633 > perms. Did you mean 644? 633 would be very strange permissions (write and execute but not read for group and others). hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Story must ma

Re: pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

2021-05-19 Thread David Steele
On 5/19/21 2:48 PM, Ron wrote: On 5/19/21 1:34 PM, David Steele wrote: On 5/19/21 1:49 PM, Ron wrote: Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root and 633 perms.  Normally, that's ok, but is a horrible idea when it's a plaintext file, and stores the pgbackrest encrypti

Re: pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

2021-05-19 Thread Ron
On 5/19/21 1:34 PM, David Steele wrote: On 5/19/21 1:49 PM, Ron wrote: Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root and 633 perms.  Normally, that's ok, but is a horrible idea when it's a plaintext file, and stores the pgbackrest encryption password. Would pgbackrest

Re: pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

2021-05-19 Thread Ron
On 5/19/21 1:34 PM, David Steele wrote: On 5/19/21 1:49 PM, Ron wrote: Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root and 633 perms.  Normally, that's ok, but is a horrible idea when it's a plaintext file, and stores the pgbackrest encryption password. Would pgbackrest

Re: pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

2021-05-19 Thread Ron
On 5/19/21 1:33 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: Greetings, * Ron (ronljohnso...@gmail.com) wrote: Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root and 633 perms.  Normally, that's ok, but is a horrible idea when it's a plaintext file, and stores the pgbackrest encryption password.

Re: pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

2021-05-19 Thread David Steele
On 5/19/21 1:49 PM, Ron wrote: Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root and 633 perms.  Normally, that's ok, but is a horrible idea when it's a plaintext file, and stores the pgbackrest encryption password. Would pgbackrest (or something else) break if I change it

Re: pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

2021-05-19 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Ron (ronljohnso...@gmail.com) wrote: > Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root and 633 > perms.  Normally, that's ok, but is a horrible idea when it's a plaintext > file, and stores the pgbackrest encryption password. > > Would pgbackrest (or something els

pgbackrest - hiding the encryption password

2021-05-19 Thread Ron
Currently on our RHEL 7.8 system, /etc/pgbackrest.conf is root:root and 633 perms.  Normally, that's ok, but is a horrible idea when it's a plaintext file, and stores the pgbackrest encryption password. Would pgbackrest (or something else) break if I change it to postgres:postgres 600 perms