Re: How to set password without echoing characters?

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Adrian Klaver  wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:00:53 pm Yang Zhang wrote:
>> Anyone know how to set your password without having it visible in the
>> terminal, psql history, etc. (i.e. getpass(3))? Hoping there's a
>> program that already does this. Thanks.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html

This seems to only address authenticating with an already-set
password, and not setting the password....