On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Mel Jamero wrote:
> to get to the psql interface we execute:
>
> psql dbname -U user
>
> is it possible to disable the -U option such that a user cannot invoke the
> privileges of a database superuser such as postgres?
>
> tried looking up pg_hba.conf regarding 'password' authentication, the man
> pages and the archives but didn't get too lucky.
Did you stop / start postgresql after the changes? Make sure you don't
have a line for "trust" 127.0.0.1 as well.