| From: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens |
| Date: | 2001-11-28 20:44:29 |
| Message-ID: | m3d722ocb6.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> OK, I reread what you said and I see now I am not going to get away with
> being brief. Text is now:
>
> <envar>PGPASSWORD</envar>
> sets the password used if the backend demands password
> authentication. This is not recommended because the password can
> be read by others using a <command>ps</command> environment flag
> on some platforms.
Looks good to me. I think the 'ps' options are the most annoying
difference between SysV and BSD Unices. Linux 'ps' tries to be both
by acting BSDish if you supply options without a dash, and SysVish if
you use one. Ambitious, but it's bitten me once or twice...
-Doug
--
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
--T. J. Jackson, 1863
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