Postgres puttycyg no password prompt

I couldn't figure out why I would never get a password prompt when issuing postgres commands in puttycyg/cygwin terminal.  Sounds alot like this issue from 7 years ago.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-11/msg00295.php

Solutions:
Put passwords in  here: /AppData/Roaming/postgresql/pgpass.conf

or use the Windows CMD shell.