Re: password is no required, authentication is overridden

Hello Andrew,

Thanks a lot!
There is a pgpass file and it contians the password:
D:\Documents and Settings\admin\Application Data\postgresql\pgpass.conf

My installation is on: D:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\

Maybe it got automatically created by pgadmin3 ?

Looking into the documentation delivered with pg ("PostgreSQL and
pgAdmin Help") there is a page about the pgpass file,
but there is not hint to environment variable pgpassword or the
pgpass-file on the page of pg_dump, maybe you can add it ?
In the documentation page of psql there is a hint to the pgpass file.

bye
Thomas

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Are you sure you don't have a pgpass file, or the environment variable
> PGPASSWORD set?
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
> Thomas Bley wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I already tried to mail security(at)postgresql(dot)org but my message was
>> stalled.
>>
>> Version: 8.1.4 (binary for win32)
>> OS: Windows XP SP2
>>
>> I type: pg_dump -h localhost -U postgres database_name and there is no
>> question for the password.
>>
>> I haven't made changes to pg_hba.conf. I'm logged in as user "admin",
>> not "postgres", the password is not empty.
>>
>> my pg_hba.conf:
>>
>> # ...
>> # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
>>
>> # IPv4 local connections:
>> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
>>
>> without the -h localhost, I get the same (complete) dump
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createtable.html
>>
>> SHOW hba_file;
>> gives me:
>> d:/program files/postgreSQL/8.1/data/pg_hba.conf
>> (I only have one file named pg_hba.conf on my computer.
>>
>> I tried again with "pg_dump -U postgres -W database_name" when I enter
>> the right password it passes, with the wrong one it denies me, without
>> the "-W" it lets me pass.
>>
>> thanks and bye,
>> Thomas
>>
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