Vincenzo,
How have you defined authentication in pg_hba.conf? If the mode is
trust, then no user or password authentication is done.
thanks,
--Barry
Vincenzo Angelone wrote:
> Hi,
> I have this problem:
> I'm developing an application with IBM Visual Age for Java 4.0 and I use
> PostgreSQL 7.2.3-5.73 on RedHat 7.3.
> When I'm getting connection with the driver
>
> Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
> dbName = "jdbc:postgresql://mypgsqlhost/mypgsqldb";
> con_pgsql = DriverManager.getConnection(dbName, "mypgsqluser",
> "mypgsqlpassword");
>
> I don't have any exception if I specify a bad password!!!
> Why?
>
> Regards
>
> Vincenzo Angelone
> System Analyst
> tel. 08623490207
> fax.08623490240
> e-mail: v.angelone@info92.it
>
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