Re: Connection authentication

I checked PGUSER/PGPASSWORD settings for the root and the user which runs the
cron job and they seem to be fine. However, I get the following messages in
the root mail:
Connection to database 'webspec' failed.
fe_sendauth: no password supplied.
Any ideas?
thanks,

Oleg

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Oleg Lebedev wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a problem running a CRON job that vacuums and backs up my
> > database when authentication type is set to 'password' in pg_hba.conf
> > file. I used to have 'trust'ed settings before and everything was
> > working fine. Now I switched to password authentication type, but how
> > would a cron script send the password when prompted. I tried to set up
> > PGUSER and PGPASSWORD env. vars, but psql still prompts for the
> > password.
> > Any ideas?
> > I am using PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on Red Hat Linux 7.1.
> > thanks,
>
> PGUSER/PGPASSWORD certainly should work. Did you export them properly?
> The only other idea I have is upgrading to 7.2 where on Linux you can
> use ident on local connections. It uses socket authentication and will
> not require a password and you don't have to run ident.
>
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