Re: .pgpass being ignored

On 13-06-21 06:19 PM, Stephen Rasku wrote:
> I am trying to write a script that will create and populate a
> database. I don't want to enter a password every time so I want to
> use a .pgpass file. It has the correct permissions:
>
> $ ls -l $PGPASSFILE
> -rw------- 1 Stephen staff 43 21 Jun 14:48 /Users/Stephen/.pgpass
>
> However, when I call createdb, it fails:
>
> $ createdb -h 192.168.1.4 -U postgres --no-password JobSearch
> createdb: could not connect to database postgres: fe_sendauth: no
> password supplied
>
> This is the contents of my .pgpass file:
>
> 192.168.1.4:5432:DatabaseName:postgres:thisIsTheCorrectPassword
>
> If I omit the --no-password option it will prompt me for a password
> and the command will succeed. I am using 9.0.10 from MacPorts.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> ...Stephen
>
>

Hi,

Just going from a personal experience, have you tried to open the
.pgpass file in vi and made sure there's no trailing spaces in your
pgpass entry? That bit me once before :)

Ziggy