| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 up |
| Date: | 2001-11-28 15:17:52 |
| Message-ID: | 2157.1006960672@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> writes:
> At 01:08 AM 11/28/01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ... Password auth sucks from a convenience point of view
>> (or even from a possibility point of view, for scripts; don't forget
>> the changes that you yourself recently applied to guarantee that a
>> script *cannot* supply a password to psql).
> Ack. We can't send in passwords to psql anymore? :(
Well, Bruce, you were the one that was hot to make that /dev/tty change.
Time to defend it.
> Is there a safe way to send username and password to psql?
If you want to put those things in a script, you could still do
export PGUSER=whatever
export PGPASSWORD=whatever
psql ...
This would actually work a lot better than other ways for cases such
as doing pg_dumpall, where you'd otherwise need to supply the password
multiple times.
regards, tom lane
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