Re: password

"Oliver Elphick" wrote:
> >I use pgaccess and I have created new users with password
...
>Access control is defined by the text file pg_hba.conf. The default setting
>in this file is
>
> local all trust
>
>which means that anyone on the local machine can log into any PostgreSQL
>database as any user, without having to give a password.

I should add that pgaccess uses 'local' access (Unix sockets) if the hostname
is left blank. If you want to use TCP/IP you can set it to 'localhost',
in which case 'host' lines in pg_hba.conf will apply instead.

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