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... having the password in the source code is not so good anyway... -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
