Re: Authentication

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:26:46PM -0000, Christine Kluka wrote:
> I am trying to connect to postgres from a cgi script. In
> order for it to connect to postgres, I need to create a new
> postgres user that matches the Unix owner of my Web files. I
> don't get an error on create user, but I cannot find a
> pg_shadow file. Is the pg_shadow file supposed to be in my
> pgsql directory or is it generated by a command somewhere?

pg_shadow is one of the postgres database files.

% psql
> \dS

also try

> \d pg_user

it's neat to discover how they hide those passwords.

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