On 11/01/2008, Marten Lehmann <lehmann@xxxxxx> wrote: > is there no way to specify the password directly? I don't like to create > a separate file because all config is done in a shell script. I could > set a certain environment variable with the password, but does pgadmin > read a password from such a variable? If yes, what is its name? This is generally a bad idea, because on many systems one can see the environment variables with which a process was started in ps' output. It shouldn't be too hard for your config-script to echo the proper parameters into ~/.pgpass . You best forget about the thought of having a shell variable with the password ;} > Regards > Marten Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
