Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> 
> > OK, I reread what you said and I see now I am not going to get away with
> > being brief.  Text is now:
> > 
> >     <envar>PGPASSWORD</envar>
> >     sets the password used if the backend demands password
> >     authentication. This is not recommended because the password can
> >     be read by others using a <command>ps</command> environment flag
> >     on some platforms.
> 
> Looks good to me.  I think the 'ps' options are the most annoying
> difference between SysV and BSD Unices.  Linux 'ps' tries to be both
> by acting BSDish if you supply options without a dash, and SysVish if
> you use one.  Ambitious, but it's bitten me once or twice...

I dealt with this in pgmonitor.  Got it working by trying different
combinations and checking the result.

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