Re: How to set password without echoing characters?

From: Yang Zhang <yanghatespam(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to set password without echoing characters?
Date: 2011-04-06 21:15:18
Message-ID: BANLkTimEFU-393hjcVr7pK6ycy9To2Ba9A@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:00:53 pm Yang Zhang wrote:
>> Anyone know how to set your password without having it visible in the
>> terminal, psql history, etc. (i.e. getpass(3))? Hoping there's a
>> program that already does this. Thanks.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html

This seems to only address authenticating with an already-set
password, and not setting the password....

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