I've configured my 'pg_hba.conf' file to look as follows:
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only local all all md5 # IPv4 local connections: host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5 host all all 192.168.0.0/24 md5
Now I've reloaded / restarted the PostgreSQL daemon however for some reason when I use the 'postgres' user locally, it never prompts for a password in 'psql'. I've altered the role to NOINHERIT
postgres=# ALTER ROLE postgres NOINHERIT; ALTER ROLE
Any other role locally requires a password to even list the database using 'psql -l' command except the 'postgres' role. Is this normal behavior or am I missing something here? How can I force the postgres account to be prompted for a password when communicating to the database server locally?