[Portugal] QGIS - Passwords PostgreSQL guardadas no registo

[Giovanni Manghi]

http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4823



On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 16:27 +0000, Fernanda Nery wrote:
> Saving passwords
> WARNING: You have opted to save your password. It will be stored in
> plain text in your home directory on *nix systems, or in your user
> profile on Windows. If you do not want this to happen, please press
> the Cancel button. 
> pgAdmin uses PostgreSQL's 'pgpass' mechanism to store your passwords.
> On *nix systems, the password will be stored in ~/.pgpass, whilst on
> Windows systems it will be stored in %APPDATA%\PostgreSQL\pgpass.conf
> (%APPDATA% is the 'Application Data' folder in your user profile).
> This mechanism is used by default by all programs that use the libpq
> library to access the server, which includes command line applications
> such as pg_dump and pg_restore, other GUI applications, and drivers
> such as psqlODBC. This means that those applications may automatically
> connect to the server using your stored password. If you do not want
> this to happen, you should not use the Store Password option in
> pgAdmin. 
> 
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