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Can I use .pgpass authentication from command-line?

See original GitHub issue

System information:

Operating system (distribution) and version: MacOS 10.15.6
DBeaver version: 7.1.3.202007192031

Connection specification:

Database name and version: PostgresSQL 12.3

Describe your question:

I want to use DBeaver from the command-line, passing in all connection info as well as the username. However I don’t want to have the password on the CLI arguments list. I see DBeaver supports pgpass, but it doesn’t seem to be looking there for my CLI connection. I don’t see any mention of pgpass.

If I don’t specify the password, I get:

The server requested password-based authentication, but no password was provided.

I see the data-sources.json describes it as "auth-model": "postgres_pgpass", I tried passing in various versions of these strings but no dice. Is pgpass supported for CLI usage or am I missing something obvious?

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:13 (4 by maintainers)

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serge-ridercommented, Aug 20, 2020

PgPAss (and other non-default auth models) support was added. See https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/wiki/Command-Line#connection-parameters and https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/wiki/Database-authentication-models

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dtseilercommented, Aug 20, 2020

oh whew. That’s great!

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