David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > 7.3 will have a password file read from the user's home directory that
> > will handle this; it can support multiple usernames in the same file.
>
> Sounds good. I assume you will pick the password based on
> the username/database server/database name combination?
>
> And I'm sure you'll do security checks on the file before using it
> (owned by the user, not world-readable, all parent directories have
> sane permissions and ownerships.) But I'll post this anyway as a gentle
> reminder. :-)
Commit message is:
I'm giving a try at some TODO items. Currently it's the turn of the
PGPASSWORDFILE environment variable. I have modified libpq to make use
of this variable. I present the first cut here.
Currently the format for the file should be
host:port:database:user:password
Alvaro Herrera
You can look in CVS at interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c. I don't see any
permission checks in there at all.
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