> su postgres - -c <pgdump command> > > > > Now, this has worked perfectly for 3 months now, but the last few days > I started getting errors about failed authentication to the databases. Here's where it gets weird. I can su postgres - from a BASH prompt just fine,but when I run the script, it asks me for a password, which it didn't do before. > IIRC, I had to change the postgres user from /bin/false to /bin/bash > for one of our software devs to be able to monitor the DBs via Jenkins, could that have something to do with it? I can't imagine how, since I can su from the root prompt to the postgres user without asking for a password. > It's been awhile since I used postgres, having moved to mysql, but if it's asking for the postgres admin password rather than root password, can't you get around it by putting it in a file somewhere like .pgpass or setting an environment variable like PGPASSWORD? Maybe you need to set that in the shell you are created. See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/libpq-envars.html and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6523019/postgresql-scripting-psql-execution-with-password My problem is this, if it works as root from a bash prompt, why /won't/ it work as root from a bash script? Shoudn't it ask for the password in both instances? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
