Re: [GENERAL] ODBC driver

From: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)lan2wan(dot)com>
To: Kevin Heflin <kheflin(at)shreve(dot)net>
Cc: Peter Cordone <pcordone(at)ee(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] ODBC driver
Date: 1998-06-03 02:58:14
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.3.96.980602225634.1005N-100000@dragosani.lan2wan.com
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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Kevin Heflin wrote:

> > Did you create a Postgres user with the 'createuser' tool (usually run by
> > the postgres superuser (but not root))? This allows designated users to
> > use postgresql databases, and in some cases, create and destroy and even
> > set database permissions for other users.
>
> Also, don't you have to set up Postgres to accept users from another
> machine.. I forget exactly where you do that.

That'd be the pg_hba.conf file, and you can set up everything from IP
based authentication to password authentication.

Brett W. McCoy
http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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