Re: ~/pgpass - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: ~/pgpass
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Msg-id 20050814212825.GC2875@svana.org
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In response to ~/pgpass  (Oluwatope Akinniyi <tope.akinniyi@shepherdhill.biz>)
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On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 08:36:17PM +0100, Oluwatope Akinniyi wrote:
> I tried the password file and could not get it to work on both Windows
> XP and Fedora Core 4.
>
> ~/pgpass permission is 0600 on Fedora and I tested using psql and
> pg_dump commands. The two commands prompted for password and target
> database which I expected should not be.

It's ~/.pgpass  the dot is important...

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