| From: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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| To: | "John DeSoi" <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "PostgreSQL-development Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Windows psql changes after 8.1.1 |
| Date: | 2006-11-24 14:40:09 |
| Message-ID: | 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA35983@algol.sollentuna.se |
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> Hi Magnus,
>
> I did not use PGPASSWORD because the documentation says it is
> not secure.
Well, it says "some operating systems allow non-root users to see
process environment variables via ps". This is very much not the case on
Windows, so I don't beleive there is any problem with it on windows.
> I'll give it a try on Windows. Just curious, why
> is stdin/ stdout insecure if that is what is used for normal
> interactive operation?
It's not used for normal interactive operation. The password is
retreived directly from CON: (just like it does on Unix)
> Could you point me to the file that changed in 8.1.4?
It's src/port/sprompt.c.
//Magnus
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