Re: prevent connection using pgpass.conf

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 2010/4/1 Christophe Dore <c(dot)dore(at)castsoftware(dot)com>:
> >
> > - is there any configuration that can be done on server side to prevent
> > the client side to use such file to read passwords ?
>
> No. It happens before the user ha slogged in, obviously.
>
>
> > - is there any options that can be set in postgres libpq C library to
> > prevent the connection functions to search for password in files ?
>
> No, but you could possibly set the PGPASSFILE environment variable to
> a place where you *know* there won't be a pgpass file, if you can
> determine such a place.

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