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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2005-02-26 18:50:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2005-02-26 18:50:44 +0000 |
| commit | 9f312cde26a22a4982f197db361dd4edc8ffbbfc (patch) | |
| tree | 839b820590800e71b33a1a523cfa679346c09530 | |
| parent | a72fd004bae17fe77f5f6148a5756db7f62e42d7 (diff) | |
Backpatch clarification of PGPASSWORD to 8.0.X.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml index 373c257f539..9e51b7726b7 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.178 2005/01/14 00:23:21 momjian Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.178.4.1 2005/02/26 18:50:44 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="libpq"> @@ -3691,9 +3691,11 @@ sets the user name used to connect to the database. </indexterm> <envar>PGPASSWORD</envar> sets the password used if the server demands password -authentication. This environment variable is deprecated for security -reasons; instead consider using the <filename>~/.pgpass</> -file (see <xref linkend="libpq-pgpass">). +authentication. Use of this environment variable is not +recommended for security reasons (some operating systems +allow non-root users to see process environment variables via +<application>ps</>); instead consider using the +<filename>~/.pgpass</> file (see <xref linkend="libpq-pgpass">). </para> </listitem> <listitem> |