Thread: Wrong passwords allowed

On 6/28/23 17:45, Atul Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having a strange issue that I have a postgres intance running on 
> version 12 in centos 7.
> 
> So whenever I am trying to login in the database using psql -W option, I 
> am entering the wrong passwords for that user, even after that I am 
> logging in the database.
> 
> So could you help me in telling why is this strange behavior happening.
> 
> It is taking any passwords for any user be it right password or wrong 
> password.
> 
> What could be the problem?

Not reading this:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-pg-hba-conf.html

and this:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-trust.html

or this:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-peer.html

> 
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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