Re: Authentication - Mailing list pgsql-general

From will trillich
Subject Re: Authentication
Date
Msg-id 20010516002756.N29095@serensoft.com
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In response to Authentication  ("Christine Kluka" <klukac@c4.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:26:46PM -0000, Christine Kluka wrote:
> I am trying to connect to postgres from a cgi script.  In
> order for it to connect to postgres, I need to create a new
> postgres user that matches the Unix owner of my Web files.  I
> don't get an error on create user, but I cannot find a
> pg_shadow file.  Is the pg_shadow file supposed to be in my
> pgsql directory or is it generated by a command somewhere?

pg_shadow is one of the postgres database files.

    % psql
    > \dS

also try

    > \d pg_user

it's neat to discover how they hide those passwords.

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