This patch adds information to the documentation on .pgpass and creates

additional index entries for it.

Oliver Elphick

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
index 480b08d2cf21a8bc7e251125a4595cdf8f5ccebd..6a05567d879643bf20c5b094b1a8e340ce4e043f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
  
@@ -2047,7 +2047,8 @@ sets the user name used to connect to the database and for authentication.
 PGPASSWORD
 sets the password used if the backend demands password
 authentication.  This functionality is deprecated for security
-reasons; consider migrating to use the $HOME/.pgpass
+reasons; consider migrating to use the 
+$HOME/.pgpass
 file.
 
 
@@ -2133,6 +2134,11 @@ for information on correct values for these environment variables.
  files
 
 
+
+
+ password
+ .pgpass
+
 $HOME/.pgpass is a file that can contain passwords
 to be used if the connection requires a password. This file should have the
 format:
@@ -2144,6 +2150,11 @@ anything.  The first match will be used so put more specific entries first.
 Entries with : or \ should be escaped
 with \.
 
+
+The permissions on $HOME/.pgpass must disallow any
+access to world or group; achieve this by the command
+chmod 0600 $HOME/.pgaccess.
+If the permissions are less strict than this, the file will be ignored.