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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2007-02-20 17:47:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2007-02-20 17:47:04 +0000 |
| commit | ecba519d4ed55a1f4d0120e679e68c8df7868de8 (patch) | |
| tree | 6588e93a6956787b761e03d2ba2a449cdb4eea46 | |
| parent | 9cbd0c155d1602aad879f510256b626c58942080 (diff) | |
Adjust user-facing documentation to explain why we don't check pgpass
file permissions on Windows.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml index a7be065ec67..9e5416c53f3 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.232 2007/02/19 22:06:23 momjian Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.233 2007/02/20 17:47:04 tgl Exp $ --> <chapter id="libpq"> <title><application>libpq</application> - C Library</title> @@ -4337,12 +4337,12 @@ default socket directory) connections coming from the local machine. </para> <para> -The permissions on <filename>.pgpass</filename> must disallow any -access to world or group; achieve this by the command +On Unix systems, the permissions on <filename>.pgpass</filename> must disallow +any access to world or group; achieve this by the command <command>chmod 0600 ~/.pgpass</command>. If the permissions are less strict than this, the file will be ignored. -(The file permissions are not currently checked on Microsoft Windows, -however.) +On Microsoft Windows, the file is stored in a directory that is secure by +default, so no special permissions check is made. </para> </sect1> |