Sharing a DB user password among units of the app

Tue Oct 29 13:11:37 UTC 2013

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On 2013-10-29 16:38, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There is this charm with a db-admin relation to postgresql. In
> this relation, the charm gets access to a super user in postgresql
> and can do whatever it wants with it.
> 
> When the first unit of the app comes up, it creates a random
> password and uses the DB admin user to create an unprivileged DB
> user with that password.
> 
> Now I run add-unit, and another unit comes up. How can it get that
> password?
> 
...

> 
> Is this a case for a peer relation?
> 
> 

Yes. As I understand it, that is exactly what a peer relation is for.

John
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