[Babase] New password file for conversion

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:04:56 -0500


Steph,

The conversion program is no longer asking for passwords,
they are now stored in a file.  So, you have to make the file.

The name of the file is '/home/slc8/.pgpass'.

The contents must look like:

*:*:*:slc8:<yourpassword>
*:*:*:babase_admin:<thebabaseadminpasswd>

Where '<yourpassword>' is your passsword (no quotes or <>s).
and '<thebabaseadminpasswd>' is the babase database administrator
password.  (I forget the deal if your password has a colon in it.)

The file must be read/writeable _only_ by you.
(chmod u=rw,g=,o= ~/.pgpass)

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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