Re: [HACKERS] Authentication Woes

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: James Hughes <jamesh(at)interpath(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Authentication Woes
Date: 1998-01-20 19:43:51
Message-ID: Pine.NEB.3.95.980120144303.19167b-100000@hub.org
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, James Hughes wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> After installing the latest cvs tree this morning, I cannot use
> createuser and createdb. They break when trying to run psql. I can
> connect with psql to the template1 database after setting up hba to use
> password authentication and starting it with the -u option.
>
> Does the hba still use trust and ident as well? Is there a primer on the
> new authentication scheme?
>
> I am moving up from 6.1.0 on Linux.

v6.1.0 would have used TCP/IP for communications exclusively...
v6.3 moved to using Unix Domain Sockets as default, with TCP/IP disabled
by default. To "mirror" the old behavior, add the -i option to your
startup script and youshould be okay...

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