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

At 01:08 AM 11/28/01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> ... But because we are Internet-enabled,
>> and because our insecurity is only local, it seems OK to people.
>
>It's not that it's "okay", it's that we haven't got any good
>alternatives.  Password auth sucks from a convenience point of view
>(or even from a possibility point of view, for scripts; don't forget
>the changes that you yourself recently applied to guarantee that a
>script *cannot* supply a password to psql).  Ident auth doesn't work,
>

Ack. We can't send in passwords to psql anymore? :(

Is there a safe way to send username and password to psql?

Cheerio,
Link.