| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Adam Osuchowski <adwol(at)polsl(dot)gliwice(dot)pl>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql: default base and password reading |
| Date: | 2001-10-15 16:41:06 |
| Message-ID: | 200110151641.f9FGf6G02786@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Have you seen my later version that reads from stdin/stderr if /dev/tty
> > doesn't open. How is that?
>
> Might as well use getpass() if available. My man page says "A getpass
> function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.", so it should be available on
> most systems.
>
> However, I'm afraid many users have set up their systems to read the
> password from stdin, so that should probably stay the default unless we
> take a user poll.
OK, seeing only positive reports, I have committed the patch to
display/prompt from /dev/tty and fall back to stdin/stderr.
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