md5 doesn't work (Was Re: Pet Peeves?)

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, rhubbell wrote:

> Umm, because md5 doesn't work and trust does work.

Generally this is because you haven't yet set a password for the postgres
user. You have to set a password for at least the postgres user via ALTER
ROLE while you've still got it set to trust or ident before changing to md5.

> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:16:19 -0500
> Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> In response to rhubbell <Rhubbell(at)iHubbell(dot)com>:
>>>
>>> I'm a new user to PostgreSQL so mine's fresh from doing an install recently.
>>>
>>> In /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/pg_hba.conf
>>>
>>> # METHOD can be "trust", "reject", "md5", "crypt", "password", "gss", "sspi",
>>> # "krb5", "ident", "pam" or "ldap". Note that "password" sends passwords
>>> # in clear text; "md5" is preferred since it sends encrypted passwords.
>>>
>>>
>>> So I chose md5 but it will not work, seems like a basic thing. So I am
>>> forced to use "trust".
>>
>> How on earth does failure of md5 to work force you to use trust?
>>
>> How about crypt or password (password is pretty darn simple to set up).
>>

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