Postgresql newbie username/password question

From: Gary <gary_n(at)hotmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Postgresql newbie username/password question
Date: 2001-05-09 08:58:10
Message-ID: 3AF906A1.B3065DA1@hotmail.com
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I've just installed v7.1 and got the DBD stuff working so I'm able to
connect to a test database and return data within a perl script.

I'm slightly confused how the concept of user authentication works in
Postgresql. I ideally need to have a specific user to connect to a
database from the web, how do I pass this detail through the DBD, I
don't see an option in the connect string. I was using Oracle and you
could specify user and password details to the connect string okay ? Am
I missing something obvious ?

Do I need to do some setup with the hba.conf file for 'local' users ?

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