From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens |
Date: | 2001-11-28 18:50:29 |
Message-ID: | 200111281850.fASIoTC25971@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> Is there a safe way to send username and password to psql?
>
> > The standard way I know of is to use 'expect' and wrap your psql call
> > around that.
>
> Didn't you break that by making psql read the password from /dev/tty?
> Or can 'expect' take control of /dev/tty?
Expect communicates with the process via pseudo-ttys, so it works fine.
Also, if it can't read /dev/tty, it will read from stdin. At least that
is that standard way to do it.
getpass() docs said:
The getpass() function displays a prompt to, and reads in a password
from, /dev/tty. If this file is not accessible, getpass displays the
prompt on the standard error output and reads from the standard input.
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