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From Micah Yoder
Subject Re: What is a password for?
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In response to What is a password for?  (Weiwei Guo <wwguocn@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: What is a password for?  (Weiwei Guo <wwguocn@gmail.com>)
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On Sunday 16 March 2008 12:31:40 am Weiwei Guo wrote:
> I cannot understand the mechanism for password. Is it a bug?

Check your pg_hba.conf file.  I suspect that for LOCAL connections you have
specified TRUST "authentication".

If you want to enforce passwords you would change TRUST to MD5.

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