Re: [GENERAL] Postgres CGI Security Problem

On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Shawn T. Walker wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> 	Have you considered using the Perl DBI module.  It will let
> you connect to a database with a username and a password. 
> 

> Chris Hardie writes:
>  > In anycase, I'm using the Postgres.pm module with PERL, and it doesn't
>  > seem to support the passing of a username/password pair (correct me if I'm
>  > wrong) from a CGI script.  I'll attempt to code that, unless someone has
>  > done it already.

Actually Pg.pm *does* allow you to connect with a username/password. If
you use the 'new-style' methods of Pg.pm, do $db->connect("dbname=.. user=..
password=..");. If you use the 'old-style' (like I do), use PQconnectdb() 
with the same arguments.

Maarten

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