Package: postgresql-client
Version: 7.4.7-6
Severity: minor
psql(1) manual page does not mention in the FILES section ~/.pgpass file
and how it is used. It should include:
FILES
...
o The file ~/.pgpass in is a file that can contain passwords to be
used if the connection requires a password (and no password has
been specified otherwise). This file should have lines of the
following format:
hostname:port:database:username:password
Each of the first four fields may be a literal value, or *, which
matches anything. The password field from the first line that matches
the current connection parameters will be used. (Therefore, put
more-specific entries first when you are using wildcards.) If an entry
needs to contain : or \, escape this character with \.
The permissions on .pgpass must disallow any access to world or group;
achieve this by the command chmod 0600 ~/.pgpass. If the permissions
are less strict than this, the file will be ignored.
This explanation was exerpted from
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/libpq-pgpass.html
I have no idea why it is there, where nobidy is looking
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Versions of packages postgresql-client depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.49 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.13.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libkrb53 1.3.6-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpq3 7.4.7-6 PostgreSQL C client library
ii libreadline4 4.3-15 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
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