Re: .pgpass being ignored - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: .pgpass being ignored
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Msg-id 51C85FA6.4080004@Yahoo.com
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In response to Re: .pgpass being ignored  (Rebecca Clarke <r.clarke83@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: .pgpass being ignored
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On 06/24/13 10:24, Rebecca Clarke wrote:
> I could be wrong, but shouldn't the owner of .pgpass be postgres?

The owner of ~/.pgpass is whoever owns ~ (the home directory of that user).

And ~/.pgpass must have permissions 0600 in order for libpq to actually
use it.


Jan


>
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Ziggy Skalski <zskalski@afilias.info
> <mailto:zskalski@afilias.info>> wrote:
>
>     On 13-06-21 06:19 PM, Stephen Rasku wrote:
>
>         I am trying to write a script that will create and populate a
>         database.  I don't want to enter a password every time so I want to
>         use a .pgpass file.  It has the correct permissions:
>
>              $ ls -l $PGPASSFILE
>              -rw-------  1 Stephen  staff  43 21 Jun 14:48
>         /Users/Stephen/.pgpass
>
>         However, when I call createdb, it fails:
>
>              $ createdb -h 192.168.1.4 -U postgres --no-password JobSearch
>              createdb: could not connect to database postgres:
>         fe_sendauth: no
>         password supplied
>
>         This is the contents of my .pgpass file:
>
>
>          192.168.1.4:5432:DatabaseName:__postgres:__thisIsTheCorrectPassword
>
>         If I omit the --no-password option it will prompt me for a password
>         and the command will succeed.  I am using 9.0.10 from MacPorts.
>
>         What am I doing wrong?
>
>         ...Stephen
>
>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Just going from a personal experience, have you tried to open the
>     .pgpass file in vi and made sure there's no trailing spaces in your
>     pgpass entry?  That bit me once before :)
>
>     Ziggy
>
>
>
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