Add instructions for providing ~/.my.cnf and ~/.pgpass files to provide database...

Signed-off-by: Eric Bollengier <eric@eb.homelinux.org>

diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/developers/regression.tex b/docs/manuals/en/developers/regression.tex
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--- a/docs/manuals/en/developers/regression.tex
+++ b/docs/manuals/en/developers/regression.tex
@@ -261,6 +261,25 @@ Generally, to do the above, you will need to run under root to
 be able to create databases and modify permissions within MySQL and
 PostgreSQL.
 
+It is possible to configure MySQL access for database accounts that
+require a password to be supplied. This can be done by creating a ~/.my.cnf
+file which supplies the credentials by default to the MySQL commandline
+utilities.
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+[client]
+host     = localhost
+user     = regress
+password = asecret
+\end{verbatim}
+
+A similar technique can be used PostgreSQL regression testing where the
+database is configured to require a password. The ~/.pgpass file should
+contain a line with the database connection properties.
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+hostname:port:database:username:password
+\end{verbatim}
 
 \subsection{Running the Disk Only Regression}
 \index{Regression!Running the Disk Only}