On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:24, Eric Emerton wrote:
> I have been stuggling all day with the pgpass ability on 8.0 Postgres - on 
> Windows 2000.   I have been to the 
> documentation:<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html>
>  After reading many threads on similar problems, I just cannot seem to get a 
> batch file to recognize that pgpass is there.   I have dropped it into the 
> Application data directory postgresql\pgpass.conf of 'Administrator', (My 
> windows username), 'postgres', 'All Users', etc, etc.    The contents I have 
> tried for the pgpass file areeach of the combinations of:
> 
> localhost:5432:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> 127.0.0.1:5432:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> localhost:*:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> 127.0.0.1:*:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> ..and many others
> 
> <dbusername> has been postgres and other test superuser accounts.   Nothing 
> seems to work.  I have restarted postgres, restarted windows, and it simply 
> wont take..

Has it been set to be readable only by the given user who is using it?

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