Tim Harig a écrit :
> On 2010-11-14, Camille Harang <mammi...@garbure.org> wrote:
>> # pg_dump prompts for password so I inject it in stdin.
>> pgsql.stdin.write('MY_PASSWORD' + '\n')
>
> For security reasons, some programs use direct access to the TTY system
> for password entry rather then reading from stdin. Most of these programs
> provide another access mechanism that can be used for authentication
> (ie public keys or storing the password in a permission restricted
> configuration file.
Ha, indeed, I suspected that pg_dump didn't behave normally, security
matters might be an explanation, I'll dig in that way, thanks a lot.
Regards,
Camille.
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