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Re:Ask HN: How are teams sharing secrets? by marvel_boy on Thursday September 15, 2016 @02:41PM (#12508648)
Instead of requiring only a password is better to use Two-Factor authentication.
Re:Ask HN: How are teams sharing secrets? by tptacek on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:52PM (#12510151)
2FA doesn't work so great for Postgres.
Re:Ask HN: How are teams sharing secrets? by anarazel on Thursday September 15, 2016 @08:25PM (#12511045)
You can do stuff with gssapi / kerberos. Or, if you consider that 2FA, you can use client certificates in addition to passwords. Interactive 2FA probably imo doesn't make that much sense for a database.
Re:Ask HN: How are teams sharing secrets? by tptacek on Thursday September 15, 2016 @09:32PM (#12511315)
Yep, that's what I'm trying to say. :)

The "team secret sharing problem" usually refers to "how do we manage all the API and backend secrets we need to deploy and test a new instance, without having everyone shlepping them around on their dev laptops, and without ending up in a mode were the loss of one server equates to the loss of every instance in the environment."

Re:Ask HN: How are teams sharing secrets? by anarazel on Thursday September 15, 2016 @10:08PM (#12511438)
Well, kerberos isn't a bad answer for that. But it's way too annoying to set up :/