Re: password - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Oliver Elphick
Subject Re: password
Date
Msg-id 200104162258.f3GMwdU02795@linda.lfix.co.uk
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In response to Re: password  ("Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>)
List pgsql-admin
"Oliver Elphick" wrote:
  >  >I use pgaccess and I have created new users with password
 ...
  >Access control is defined by the text file pg_hba.conf.  The default setting
  >in this file is
  >
  >  local all trust
  >
  >which means that anyone on the local machine can log into any PostgreSQL
  >database as any user, without having to give a password.

I should add that pgaccess uses 'local' access (Unix sockets) if the hostname
is left blank.  If you want to use TCP/IP you can set it to 'localhost',
in which case 'host' lines in pg_hba.conf will apply instead.

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