Re: Re: Unknown token in connection string - Mailing list pgadmin-support

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In response to Re: Re: Unknown token in connection string  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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I think, it's not very clear from documentation, when user see "connection string" ,they will tempt to use password as
well, as one normally do. 
http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.20/commandline.html

regards,
Prasad
 
 

Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 at 8:53 AM
From: "Dave Page" <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Prasad <prasad.s@mail.com>
Cc: "pgAdmin Support" <pgadmin-support@postgresql.org>, Clodoaldo <clodoaldo.pinto.neto@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Re: Unknown token in connection string
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Prasad <prasad.s@mail.com> wrote:
> Looking at code, it looks like "connection string", is not expecting any password and will prompt for one. May well
possiblya bug. 

No, it's a security "feature". Using passwords on the command line is
a bad idea as other users can see it in ps output etc. Use a
PGPASSFILE instead.

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