Re: password authentication

Phuong,

The pg_hba.conf has a lot to do with authentication. I strongly suggest
you read through the internal documentation in the file itself, as well
as the sections in the 7.1 docs. They explain the system very well.

The shortcut to the answer is you probably are using "trust"
authentication which means it doesn't check passwords at all. As I said,
read the examples in the file and in the docs and I'm sure you will
figure it out. Also remember that the FIRST authentication method that
matches in the pg_hba.conf file is the one that is used for a given
combination of DB, IP, MASK, auth method, etc.

Tim Frank

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On 19/04/01, 7:36:19 PM, pma(at)commandprompt(dot)com (Phuong Ma) wrote
regarding password authentication:

> Hi,

> I was wondering what the different methods of creating a password
> accomplish because I created a password for a test user using the
> command WITH PASSWORD. I tried testing to see if I could log on without
> a password, and it worked. Is there anything else I would need to do to
> activate the password authentication? Does the pg_hba.conf file have
> anything to do with this? If it does, and I only want to create a
> password for this one user, would I specify it in the pg_hba.conf file?

> Thanks.

> Phuong

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