| From: | "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net> |
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| To: | Heath Johns <public(at)elesi(dot)org> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Permissions |
| Date: | 2001-02-27 18:13:51 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0102271312440.20040-100000@chapelperilous.net |
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Heath Johns wrote:
> I need every postgres account to be authenticated by password. However
> I would also like to have the local unix user 'postgres' to be able to
> bypass that password authentication. The reason is that I have a cron
> job that calls pg_dump under that account and I would rather not have to
> put the master password for my rdbms in a script.
>
> I imagine this is a common scenario. Any thoughts?
You need something like this in your $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf file:
local postgres trust
local template1 trust
host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 password
-- Brett
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