Password issue

'-W' option is there to prompt the password.

Use PGPASSWORD environment variable.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/libpq-envars.html

*createdb creates a PostgreSQL database.*
*
*
*Usage:*
* createdb [OPTION]... [DBNAME] [DESCRIPTION]*
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*Options:*
* -D, --tablespace=TABLESPACE default tablespace for the database*
* -e, --echo show the commands being sent to the server*
* -E, --encoding=ENCODING encoding for the database*
* -l, --locale=LOCALE locale settings for the database*
* --lc-collate=LOCALE LC_COLLATE setting for the database*
* --lc-ctype=LOCALE LC_CTYPE setting for the database*
* -O, --owner=OWNER database user to own the new database*
* -T, --template=TEMPLATE template database to copy*
* --help show this help, then exit*
* --version output version information, then exit*
*
*
*Connection options:*
* -h, --host=HOSTNAME database server host or socket directory*
* -p, --port=PORT database server port*
* -U, --username=USERNAME user name to connect as*
* -w, --no-password never prompt for password*
* -W, --password force password prompt*

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Mahmoud <mhhasan@gmx.com> wrote:

Hi all
I am trying to create a database by passing arguments to createdb.exe but
createdb always asks me about the password although I passed -W 123 to it.

How can I override password request?

PS
This my test for creating the database
createdb.exe -U postgres -W 123 -O admin -e test

Cheers.

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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 05:53:11PM +0300, Mahmoud wrote:

Hi all
I am trying to create a database by passing arguments to
createdb.exe but createdb always asks me about the password although
I passed -W 123 to it.

please check docs for createdb
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/app-createdb.html

-W is not used to provide password at command line.

for providing password check
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/libpq-envars.html
and/or
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html

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Mahmoud wrote:

I am trying to create a database by passing arguments to createdb.exe
but createdb always asks me about the password although I passed -W 123
to it.

How can I override password request?

PS
This my test for creating the database
createdb.exe -U postgres -W 123 -O admin -e test

As has been mentioned, -W takes no arguments and prompts you for a password.

If you want a password, but don't want the prompt (e.g. because you are
writing a script), you could:

- Not use -W, then the superuser will have no password initially.
- Start the server.
- Using "trust" authentication, connect to a database.
- Issue "ALTER ROLE ... PASSWORD '...'" to set a password.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe