Adjust user-facing documentation to explain why we don't check pgpass

file permissions on Windows.
REL8_3_STABLE
Tom Lane 19 years ago
parent 9cbd0c155d
commit ecba519d4e
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      doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml

@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.232 2007/02/19 22:06:23 momjian Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.233 2007/02/20 17:47:04 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="libpq">
<title><application>libpq</application> - C Library</title>
@ -4337,12 +4337,12 @@ default socket directory) connections coming from the local machine.
</para>
<para>
The permissions on <filename>.pgpass</filename> must disallow any
access to world or group; achieve this by the command
On Unix systems, the permissions on <filename>.pgpass</filename> must disallow
any access to world or group; achieve this by the command
<command>chmod 0600 ~/.pgpass</command>.
If the permissions are less strict than this, the file will be ignored.
(The file permissions are not currently checked on Microsoft Windows,
however.)
On Microsoft Windows, the file is stored in a directory that is secure by
default, so no special permissions check is made.
</para>
</sect1>

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