Re: DOS-style line endings in .pgpass

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> writes:
> > On 11/14/2016 08:31 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >> What appears to be happening here is that one of the characters of the
> >> CRLF is being appended to the password, making it invalid.
>
> > Maybe something like the attached patch?
>
> Our usual approach to \r characters is that they're whitespace. I wonder
> whether the most friendly solution here is to chomp all trailing
> whitespace. Anybody ever heard of using a trailing space or tab in a
> password?
>
> while (len > 0 && strchr(" \t\r\n", buf[len - 1]) != NULL)
> buf[--len] = '\0';
>
> regards, tom lane

​FWIW, I think that's a really good idea. I, personally, don't like
non-printable characters in passwords. They are harder than <elided> to
enter on the keyboard.​

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