Re: How to enable remote anoymous logins? (+ admin

On 2/27/06 10:21 AM, "kynn(at)panix(dot)com" <kynn(at)panix(dot)com> wrote:

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> Hi. What must I do to enable remote anonymous logins to our
> PostgreSQL server? What determines whether a password is required?
> Is it possible to require that the password be the user's e-mail
> address? Does the server keep record of all connections?
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> (BTW, our server is version 8.0, and runs on Linux.)
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> As you can see, I have many questions, too many in fact! I have not
> had much luck finding good resources on *administering* a PostgreSQL
> server. Are there any good books for this? Or other resources for
> the novice dbadmin? I'm particularly interested in stuff on
> administering PostgreSQL on Linux/Unix.

If you haven't found the postgresql docs yet, they are here and are
excellent.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0

See here for details on what you want to do:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/client-authentication.html

However, in short, you probably DO NOT want to make anonymous connections to
your database in most cases. What is it that you are trying to do?

Sean