Re: Re: Unknown token in connection string

Thanks - I've updated the docs to note this.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Prasad <prasad(dot)s(at)mail(dot)com> wrote:
> I think, it's not very clear from documentation, when user see "connection string" ,they will tempt to use password as well , as one normally do.
> http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.20/commandline.html
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> regards,
> Prasad
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> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 at 8:53 AM
> From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
> To: Prasad <prasad(dot)s(at)mail(dot)com>
> Cc: "pgAdmin Support" <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Clodoaldo <clodoaldo(dot)pinto(dot)neto(at)gmail(dot)com>
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Re: Unknown token in connection string
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Prasad <prasad(dot)s(at)mail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Looking at code, it looks like "connection string", is not expecting any password and will prompt for one. May well possibly a bug.
>
> No, it's a security "feature". Using passwords on the command line is
> a bad idea as other users can see it in ps output etc. Use a
> PGPASSFILE instead.
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