Hi, I have never given postgres a password before, but one of my clients put one on his postgres user - I suppose so he could use the postgres user from phppgadmin (not my choice !). But now I can't see how to get my backup scripts to work... can I put the password for tools like pg_dumpall (or psql, or whatever) on the CL. There is no option in the docs... Would it be better to remove the password (if so, any pointers, I couldn't find that either!) and make postgres only able to connect via pipes? Thanks again, Anton ps. I did google but obviously couldn't find the right combo of keywords...