Authenticating user `postgres'

From: Arcady Genkin <a(dot)genkin(at)utoronto(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Authenticating user `postgres'
Date: 2001-09-26 17:35:48
Message-ID: r1zn13hua6j.fsf@bashful.cdf.toronto.edu
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Hello:

I have a pg_hba.conf question. Currently the authentication is setup
as thus:

local db1 password passwd.db1
local db2 password passwd.db2
local all password passwd.su

So, I store passwords for users in separate files for each database.
The third line is for the internal postgres templates.

The problem I'm having is that I want local UNIX user `postgres', who
is the database superuser, to be able to connect to any database
without a password. I want, for example, to be able to run a cronjob
like "pg_dumpall >backup", but I can't do that with my current setup.

Any ideas?

Many thanks,
--
Arcady Genkin
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