From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Christoph Dalitz <christoph(dot)dalitz(at)hs-niederrhein(dot)de> |
Cc: | medi(dot)montaseri(at)intransa(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, stan(at)morgan(dot)harvard(dot)edu |
Subject: | Re: supplying password to psql on command line? |
Date: | 2002-10-29 18:08:19 |
Message-ID: | 200210291808.g9TI8JR09845@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Christoph Dalitz wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:56:32 -0800
> > From: Medi Montaseri <medi(dot)montaseri(at)intransa(dot)com>
> >
> > I think Font ends are moving away from this approach as others can see
> > your supplied
> > passwd by a simple ps(1) command.
> >
> There used to be a program "hide.c" available from the oracle website,
> which made this impossible. Unfortunately I can no longer find it.
>
> A simpler approach however is to supply the password from stdin.
> With Oracle's sqlplus this works as follows:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> sqlplus <<EOF
> userid/password(at)tnasalias
> /* SQL commands */
> EOF
>
> Unfortunately this does *not* work with psql because for some strange reason
> psql does not read the password from stdin.
psql will read the password from stdin if there is no controlling
terminal on /dev/tty.
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