From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andrea <andrea(dot)b73(at)email(dot)it>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Problems using PostgreSQL command line tools |
Date: | 2006-04-09 03:29:40 |
Message-ID: | 200604090329.k393Tfd08718@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrea <andrea(dot)b73(at)email(dot)it> writes:
> > C:\>psql -h localhost -U postgres -d postgres
> > psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
> > In practice, psql doesn't ask me the password and fails immediately!
>
> I don't pay a lot of attention to Windows-specific problems, but I seem
> to recall some recent patches involving the behavior of password
> prompting on Windows. You might check the list archives for the past
> month or so to see if your results match up with what was discussed.
The issue is if you have a \dev on your current drive, opening /dev/tty
works when it shouldn't. This will be fixed in 8.1.4 when it is
released.
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Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us
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