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From Yang Zhang
Subject Re: How to set password without echoing characters?
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Msg-id BANLkTimEFU-393hjcVr7pK6ycy9To2Ba9A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: How to set password without echoing characters?  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>)
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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....

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