| From: | Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com> |
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| To: | Dave Lazar <hunkybill(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: security question |
| Date: | 2007-04-04 21:44:36 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.64.0704041443260.32187@glacier.frostconsultingllc.com |
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Dave Lazar wrote:
>> Most likely psql is picking up the password from ~/.pgpass when run as
>> your
>> user. Pgadmin3 stores passwords in .pgpass, so it's likely been put in
>> there
>> by pgadmin. As a test - move .pgpass to .pgpass.old and try to connect
>> via
>> psql -U postgres -d myDataBase again.
>>
>>
> BINGO... thanks... first time I see .pgpass in action.. works like a
> charm... used to not work for me.. this is good :)
If it didn't work in the past, it was likely because of permissions problems.
Pgadmin probably helpfully set the permissions properly for you when it
created the file.
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