Re: user passwords - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Felipe Nascimento
Subject Re: user passwords
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Msg-id A1D265B81E168745B876193655F97F8D017F1C@mvescexc01.esc.multivalor.com.br
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In response to user passwords  (Jodi Kanter <jkanter@virginia.edu>)
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take a look at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2001-09/msg00095.php

-----Original Message-----
From: Jodi Kanter [mailto:jkanter@virginia.edu]
Sent: quinta-feira, 20 de dezembro de 2001 14:19
To: Postgres Admin List
Subject: [ADMIN] user passwords

why is it that I can sign in to the postgres database using PSQL without
having to specify a password for a user even thought one has been specified
in pg_shadow?

I signed in to Linux with my own personal id (which is NOT a postgres
account) and used the following command to get in:

psql -U postgres dbname

It let me in to our database as postgres (a superuser account) without even
prompting for a password.

Am I missing something?
thanks
Jodi
_______________________________________________________________ Jodi L
Kanter BioInformatics Database Administrator University of Virginia (804)
924-2846 jkanter@virginia.edu

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