npm install pgpass

var pgPass = require('pgpass');

var connInfo = {
  'host' : 'pgserver' ,
  'user' : 'the_user_name' ,
};

pgPass(connInfo, function(pass){
  conn_info.password = pass;
  // connect to postgresql server
});

This module tries to read the ~/.pgpass file (or the equivalent for windows systems). If the environment variable PGPASSFILE is set, this file is used instead. If everything goes right, the password from said file is passed to the callback; if the password cannot be read undefined is passed to the callback.

Cases where undefined is returned:

• the environment variable PGPASSWORD is set
• the file cannot be read (wrong permissions, no such file, ...)
• for non windows systems: the file is write-/readable by the group or by other users
• there is no matching line for the given connection info

There should be no need to use this module directly; it is already included in node-postgres.

The module reads the environment variable PGPASS_NO_DEESCAPE to decide if the the read tokens from the password file should be de-escaped or not. Default is to do de-escaping. For further information on this see this commit.

There are tests in ./test/; including linting and coverage testing. Running npm test runs:

• jshint
• mocha tests
• jscoverage and mocha -R html-cov

You can see the coverage report in coverage.html.

If you find Bugs or have improvements, please feel free to open a issue on GitHub. If you provide a pull request, I'm more than happy to merge them, just make sure to add tests for your changes.

• https://github.com/hoegaarden/node-pgpass
• https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-pgpass.html
• https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pgpass
• https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c

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