Re: Windows pgpass Problems..

I believe the problem is that under Windows there is no such entity as
$HOME.

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Lane Van Ingen
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 1:55 PM
To: Eric Emerton; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Windows pgpass Problems..

I am relatively new to PostgreSQL too, so we are sharing the same boat
:-)

Will try it, it will get me by a big problem temporarily, but hopefully
somebody will answer why the 'recommended way' does not (appear) to
work. As
it turns out, this would work for me, so long as I copy in another
pg_hba.conf file later in the batch file that closes up the security
hole I
may be opening by saying 'trust'.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Emerton [mailto:Eric.Emerton@etrials.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 1:34 PM
To: Lane Van Ingen; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] Windows pgpass Problems..


Lane

I may have found the problem (or at least a way around it) - through
another
thread search.

The file:
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\<your version>\data\pg_hba.conf

..has general connection info for hitting postgres.  Mine looked like:

# TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD
local   all         all                               md5
# IPv4-style local connections:
host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          md5
:
etc.

I changed the 'md5's to 'trust' for local connections, and the prompting
for
Password during a .bat batch run of a backup stopped working.   I'm a
bit of
a Postgres rookie, so I'm not sure the ramifications of changing this to
'trust' on a more global security level.

Eric



-----Original Message-----
From: Lane Van Ingen [mailto:lvaningen@esncc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 1:13 PM
To: Eric Emerton; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] Windows pgpass Problems..


Eric, I will be interested to see someone's response to your message,
because I am having the same problem (in Windows 2003, version 8.0). I
want
to use it in a batch file that invokes psql to load a database, etc.
without
prompting for a password. I have not tried to use wildcards (defeats the
purpose of what I am doing), but have used the specific values for
hostname:port:database:user:password, with no luck.

I (initially) did not know where %appdata%\postgresql should be; be sure
your pgpass.conf file is in the right place. You can find it by using
this
command at the DOS command prompt:
   echo %appdata%

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Eric Emerton
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:25 AM
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: [ADMIN] Windows pgpass Problems..


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-pgpa
ss.h
tml> 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..

Regards,
Eric Emerton


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