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Assessment Title
Rule Text
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server password file must not be used.
Description
Discussion Text
The EDB Postgres password file can contain passwords to be used if the connection allows a password (and no password has been specified otherwise).
This file contain lines of the following format:
hostname:port:database:username:password
It is critically important to system security that use of a password file be avoided as it stores passwords in plain text. Any user with access to these could potentially compromise the security of the database.
This file contain lines of the following format:
hostname:port:database:username:password
It is critically important to system security that use of a password file be avoided as it stores passwords in plain text. Any user with access to these could potentially compromise the security of the database.
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