Magnus Hagander wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> Magnus Hagander wrote: >>> It would break insofar that it wouldn't work. the pgpass file. It will >>> of course not break *windows*, but people will consider PostgreSQL broken. >>> >> Please explain why it won't work. *Existing* pgpass files would need to >> be secured, but that could be handled with documentation and suitable >> checks and hints in pgAdmin/libpq. New pgpass files created by pgAdmin >> (or other apps) would simply need to be secured by those apps at >> creation time. > > Files created using notepad (or whatever) will not work. Unless you > manually fiddle around with the permissions.
If you are savvy enough to read the docs, un-hide the directory, and manually create the file in the correct format, surely you can also run cacls on it? We expect *nix users to run chmod on theirs after all. I don't see this as such a big issue. Regards, Dave. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
