Re: Debian Package problems

Roberto Mello wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:00:45AM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote:
>
>> If I try to connect through psql, it asks me for the password again.
>> It looks like it's using password auth instead of ident auth, which used
>> to be the default.
>> There's nothing pointed in the packages web pages, a caveat or
>> anything. I've looked.
>
> Okay, I feel dumb now.
> It looks like Oliver Elphick (the package maintainer) changed the
>default authentication methods. Before local users were "trust" now they
>are "password".
> Thing is, if it's password, how do you know the password for user
>postgres?
> This (a note) should be in the package pages, or at least told the user
>
>during upgrade.

Noted.

If you do

export PGHOST=localhost

you will be able to connect without a password, using the default method.
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