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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2005-02-26 18:39:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2005-02-26 18:39:04 +0000 |
| commit | ffef9a9de4f7d992ebfbf88e5e926bc5e022f420 (patch) | |
| tree | 9594e30308aee04dcb0526d256ed80130f25ccb3 | |
| parent | 891497d3a9708eb773cd3bd9ff09de1beb9453fa (diff) | |
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Clarify PGPASSWORD usage:
! authentication. Use of this environment variable is not
! recommended for security reasons (some operating systems
! allow non-root users to see process environment variables via
! <application>ps</>); instead consider using the
! <filename>~/.pgpass</> file (see <xref linkend="libpq-pgpass">).
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml index 73cee75d483..968cb197494 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.179 2005/02/26 14:21:40 momjian Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.180 2005/02/26 18:39:04 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="libpq"> @@ -3691,9 +3691,11 @@ sets the user name used to connect to the database. </indexterm> <envar>PGPASSWORD</envar> sets the password used if the server demands password -authentication. This environment variable is not recommended for security -reasons; instead consider using the <filename>~/.pgpass</> -file (see <xref linkend="libpq-pgpass">). +authentication. Use of this environment variable is not +recommended for security reasons (some operating systems +allow non-root users to see process environment variables via +<application>ps</>); instead consider using the +<filename>~/.pgpass</> file (see <xref linkend="libpq-pgpass">). </para> </listitem> <listitem> |