On 11/01/2008, Marten Lehmann <lehmann@cnm.de> wrote:
> is there no way to specify the password directly? I don't like to create
> a separate file because all config is done in a shell script. I could
> set a certain environment variable with the password, but does pgadmin
> read a password from such a variable? If yes, what is its name?
This is generally a bad idea, because on many systems one can
see the environment variables with which a process was started
in ps' output.
It shouldn't be too hard for your config-script to echo the proper
parameters into ~/.pgpass . You best forget about the thought
of having a shell variable with the password ;}
> Regards
> Marten
Cheers,
Andrej
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