Re: phpPgAdmin problem

Hi,

On 29 Jul 2002, Markus Jais wrote:

> I get a login screen prompting for username and password
> I entered postgres and the linux postword for postgres
> but that didn't work

Well, you must use the password that you assigned to "postgres" user using
pg_passwd.

In etc/shadow, you could have an entry as below:

postgres:!!:11723:0:99999:7:::

This means that, postgres user will NOT accept ANY password. IMHO, maybe
this is a better security issue than assigning a passwd to postgres user.
You could disable the password by using passwd command with -l parameter.
This option is used to lock the specified account and it is available to
root only.

> I thought that I shouldn't get a login screen at all.

If so, anyone could access you db :)

Regards and best wished.

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