On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:17:23PM -0800, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
> and to my suprise, i was in and able to issue
> commands. what is 'bothering' me is that I was not
> asked for a password. in defence of the system, I was
> on a mac os x box logged in as 'postgres' so my
> current name was postgres.
>
> is this correct behaviour? I was expecting to be
> challenged.
Documentation is your friend, Ted. You need to read the pg_hba.conf
file in your PG_DATA directory, and the documentation which came with
the postgres distribution. Additionally, this really isn't a question
for hackers@.
Alex
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