Re: ident authentication problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gregory Wood
Subject Re: ident authentication problem
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Msg-id 4087492E.9020805@ewebengine.com
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In response to Re: ident authentication problem  (jseymour@LinxNet.com (Jim Seymour))
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Jim Seymour wrote:
> Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> wrote:
>>If you follow this sage advice you'll open up your financial
>>data to anyone happening to have an account on the machine in
>>question. Anyone. Not just people who also happen to have
>>*PostgreSQL* DB accounts.
>
> [snip]
>
> How, exactly, is that?

The magic is in the -U flag for psql:

psql -U pg_superuser any_db

Greg

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