| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | rhpatrick(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #15961: psql should be able to read password from stdin |
| Date: | 2019-08-19 07:15:54 |
| Message-ID: | 3ea347a8-ffc6-cab7-1c32-a2311739a511@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 2019-08-16 16:20, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> I understand why psql does not include a mechanism to pass the password on
> the command-line. Having worked with and built other similar applications
> at Oracle, I tried to pipe the password into stdin of the psql command like
> so:
>
> echo P0stgr3s | psql --username=postgres
>
> Unfortunately, psql ignores it and prompts me for the password.
The stdin for psql is already used for feeding SQL commands to execute
(e.g., psql < file.sql), so we can't also use it for getting a password.
It might be possible to create a new option to get the password from a
file descriptor (different from stdin), but that's not a feature that
exists today.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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