Thread: user authentication question
I am having trouble understanding the relationship between passwords in the "passwd" flat file and the system table pg_user. It seems that if I don't perform a sql "create user" with the "with password" option I can't connect to the database when I use password authentication even though I used the pg_passwd command to enter the user. Also pardon my ignorance but is there a secure way to enter the password using the "create user" command without exposing the password? I hate to expose a set of "canned" passwords that I wanted to enter using a script when installing the database. Thanks in advance. Jeff
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