On 8 Feb 2007 09:18:26 -0800, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 8 feb, 13:29, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 8 Feb 2007 08:23:49 -0800, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >On 8 feb, 10:27, Maël Benjamin Mettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> flupke schrieb: >> >> > i made a backup script to backup my postgres database. >> >> > Problem is that it prompts for a password. It thought i >> >> > could solve this by using popen2. >> >> >> Use pexpect:http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/ >> >> >pexpect could work. But a better way would be to supply the password >> >on the command line. >> >> So that it shows up in `ps' output to anyone on the system? :) > >Any solution has pros and cons...
Some solutions have more or less of these than other solutions though. >having the password in the source code is not so good anyway... Sure, but just because one has a password in the source doesn't mean one should completely give up. If you want to completely give up, you can just disable password authentication in pgsql. That's a lot simpler than any other solution mentioned so far. :) Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
