Re: prevent connection using pgpass.conf

2010/4/1 Christophe Dore <c.dore@castsoftware.com>:
>
> - is there any configuration that can be done on server side to prevent
> the client side to use such file to read passwords ?

No. It happens before the user ha slogged in, obviously.


> - is there any options that can be set in postgres libpq C library to
> prevent the connection functions to search for password in files ?

No, but you could possibly set the PGPASSFILE environment variable to
a place where you *know* there won't be a pgpass file, if you can
determine such a place.

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