Re: Authentication to run pg_dump automatically - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:52:40AM -0500, Neil Conway wrote:
>
> I believe PGPASSWORD may be secure on some platforms (I can't recall the
> security implications at the moment, but you might want to investigate
> it).

It's dependent on whether your OS allows the user environment to
appear to others.  On many platforms, there's some way to do it with
ps.

A

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