Nik and Michael discuss user management in Postgres — how roles work, making administration easier, setting passwords, and avoiding them being logged.
 
Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• Roles https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/user-manag.html 
• Privileges https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-priv.html
• ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-alterdefaultprivileges.html
• GRANT https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-grant.html
• REASSIGN OWNED https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-reassign-owned.html
• ALTER ROLE (including SET) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-alterrole.html 
• CREATE ROLE https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createrole.html
• Have I Been Pwned https://haveibeenpwned.com
• Pwned Passwords API https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v3#PwnedPasswords
• Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/announcing-the-crunchy-data-postgresql-stig
• Our episode on auditing https://postgres.fm/episodes/auditing

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Postgres FM is produced by:

• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

With credit to:

• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork