Re: *really* daft novice questions...

Warning: blind leading blind.

Does Postgres care at all about users on the Linux box? Or does it maintain
its own table of user accounts (which one could presumably somehow seed from
Unix-land, but that's a different newbie question)?

If it handles its own users then that's where you need to add account info.

-m

On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:01:46PM -0300, chriswood(at)wvda(dot)com wrote:
> (Note that I am a general sql/postgresql/pgadmin novice - I'm diving
> in with both feet first.)
>
> I'm using PostgreSQL 7.0.2 jon RH Linux 6.2, and everything there
> seems pretty much ok. I'm having problems with getting PgAdmin
> 7 on my Win98 machine to connect to the Linux machine via
> ODBC.
>
> Is PgAdmin 7 compatible with PostgreSQL 7.0.2?
>
> I keep getting errors that indicate that either the password is wrong
> or the database doesn't exist. I know the database I'm trying to
> access exists. I've created a user with that password on the Linux
> machine. In pg_hba.conf I've even set all connections from my
> Win98 machine to "trust". Is there something I've missed in the
> docs which explains this problem?
>
> Where are the PgAdmin docs, anyway?
>
> Should I be directing some of these questions to the Interface list?
>
> Thanks for your attention...
>
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