Re: What is a password for?

From: Weiwei Guo <wwguocn(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What is a password for?
Date: 2008-03-17 00:25:26
Message-ID: 47DDBA76.2020604@gmail.com
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Thank you, Micah and Andrej. I change TRUST to MD5 and password works
mostly, but the user 'postgres' complains "
password authentication failed". Is there any special of 'postgres'?

Micah Yoder :
> On Sunday 16 March 2008 12:31:40 am Weiwei Guo wrote:
>> I cannot understand the mechanism for password. Is it a bug?
>
> Check your pg_hba.conf file. I suspect that for LOCAL connections you have
> specified TRUST "authentication".
>
> If you want to enforce passwords you would change TRUST to MD5.
>
>

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