On Thursday 29 January 2009, rhubbell <Rhubbell@ihubbell.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:34:00 -0800 (PST)
>
> Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, rhubbell wrote:
> > > Umm, because md5 doesn't work and trust does work.
> >
> > Generally this is because you haven't yet set a password for the
> > postgres user. You have to set a password for at least the postgres
> > user via ALTER ROLE while you've still got it set to trust or ident
> > before changing to md5.
>
> Yeah, yeah, did all that, didn't work. Sorry, still a "Pet Peeve". (^;
> While you mention it, another "Pet Peeve" was the use of ident. Yikes.
>
Well, it works for everyone else. So clearly you missed something.
--
Current Peeve: The mindset that the Internet is some sort of school for
novice sysadmins and that everyone -not- doing stupid dangerous things
should act like patient teachers with the ones who are. -- Bill Cole, NANAE
