What does your pg_hba.conf say?
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Marcel Gsteiger wrote:
> My postgres 7.1 now runs for several weeks without problems. Today I
> suddenly got aware of the fact that no passwords are needed anymore to
> login to any database.
>
> Seems that the security system has been defeated on some way. pg_dumpall
> -g still shows the correct users and passwords.
>
> I don't know what went wrong here. This is a very severe situation for
> me, so I would much appreciate any hint on how I could check the
> security system and make it work again.
>
> My postmaster gets started with the following command:
>
> su -l postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -o "-i" start >/dev/null 2>&1" <
> /dev/null
