Thanks - I've updated the docs to note this. On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Prasad <prasa...@mail.com> wrote: > I think, it's not very clear from documentation, when user see "connection > string" ,they will tempt to use password as well , as one normally do. > http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.20/commandline.html > > regards, > Prasad > > > > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 at 8:53 AM > From: "Dave Page" <dp...@pgadmin.org> > To: Prasad <prasa...@mail.com> > Cc: "pgAdmin Support" <pgadmin-support@postgresql.org>, Clodoaldo > <clodoaldo.pinto.n...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Re: Unknown token in connection string > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Prasad <prasa...@mail.com> wrote: >> Looking at code, it looks like "connection string", is not expecting any >> password and will prompt for one. May well possibly a bug. > > No, it's a security "feature". Using passwords on the command line is > a bad idea as other users can see it in ps output etc. Use a > PGPASSFILE instead. > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com[http://www.enterprisedb.com] > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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