Re: [GENERAL] User authentication blues

From: Maarten Boekhold <maartenb(at)dutepp0(dot)et(dot)tudelft(dot)nl>
To: Jeffrey Napolitano <jnapoli(at)setech(dot)com>
Cc: M(dot)Boekhold(at)ITS(dot)TUDelft(dot)NL, General Questions for PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] User authentication blues
Date: 1998-07-30 18:28:13
Message-ID: Pine.SUN.3.91.980730202705.4036A-100000@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Jeffrey Napolitano wrote:

> Your pg_hba.conf listing does not include a password FILE - the format
> is:
>
> host allowedDB's IPaddys mask AUTHTYPE PASSWORDFILE
> (such as (such as
> "password", "mypasswords")
> "trust", etc)

AFAIK in the newer versions of PostgreSQL (6.3.2) this is not needed
anymore because the password is stored in a system table (pg_shadow, only
readable by the postgres superuser).

Maarten

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