Re: Set Passsword for existing User - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Set Passsword for existing User
Date
Msg-id 20020221145735.J23226-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Set Passsword for existing User  (Andreas Hierling <A.Hierling@netcafe-konstanz.de>)
List pgsql-admin
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Andreas Hierling wrote:

> I know, this should work with "ALTER USER...", But when I set the
> password this way, i�m still able to gain unrestricted access without a
> password. When setting a Password by creating the user, there�s no such
> problem. I�m working with PostgreSQL 7.1 on a SuSE 7.1 Linux. Hope
> anyone knows this Problem or is able to tell me what i have done wrong.

Are you sure that you've set up pg_hba.conf correctly?  In most cases not
being prompted for a password is due to a trust entry there.



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