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From Rebecca Clarke
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Hi

Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to ask.

I have Postres 8.4 and I am setting up replication with Slony. 
I'm having password issues with slony.
I have roamed the net for a solution and the way to fix it is to use the .pgpass file or change pg_hba.conf to accept trusted connections.
I do not want to touch the pg_hba.conf so I have generated the .pgpass file.
The permissions is set to 600, and I have correctly inputted the details into .pgpass, there are no leading spaces.

myhostname:myport:*:postgres:mypassword

However I am still prompted for a password.
I have tested pg_dump as well and it prompts also.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what may be the culprit. Is there somewhere I need to specify to tell the system to look into the .pgpass file?

many thanks

rebecca

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