No Password Supplied

[bendangelo]

I'm using postgresql to backup and i'm getting this error:

pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "dfdfb" failed: fe_sendauth: no password supplied

[RohanM]

I resolved this using a ~/.pgpass file, as described here:

http://wekeroad.com/2011/11/01/how-to-backup-your-postgres-db-to-amazon-nightly