Re: How to set password without echoing characters? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Yang Zhang
Subject Re: How to set password without echoing characters?
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Msg-id BANLkTi=_t569QfPAcwHsscLk8Bedhxo9XA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to How to set password without echoing characters?  (Yang Zhang <yanghatespam@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Yang Zhang <yanghatespam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:00:53 pm Yang Zhang wrote:
>>> Anyone know how to set your password without having it visible in the
>>> terminal, psql history, etc. (i.e. getpass(3))? Hoping there's a
>>> program that already does this. Thanks.
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html
>
> This seems to only address authenticating with an already-set
> password, and not setting the password....
>

Just discovered the \password psql command. Thanks.

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