Package: postgresql-client-common Version: 109 Severity: wishlist I'm writing a perl script to help install a package which makes use of PostgreSQL for the database. In most instances, using the various postgres scripts in /usr/bin (createuser, createdb, ...) works well with other scripting, createuser is the exception. In order for a Perl script to make use of createuser, it probably needs to be running Expect to interact with createuser.
If in addition to --pwprompt, there was something like --pwstdin, a person could do: open( PG, "| createuser ... -pwstdin ..." ); print PG "$password\n"; close( PG ); we would have a safe way of getting passwords into PostgreSQL, that a script could make use of. But, I am hardly an expert on script safety. This just seems to be the concensus opinion I've read over the last few days. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages postgresql-client-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.33 Debian configuration management sy Versions of packages postgresql-client-common recommends: ii lsb-release 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base version report postgresql-client-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
