Re: password authentication

Phuong Ma wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I was wondering what the different methods of creating a password
>accomplish because I created a password for a test user using the
>command WITH PASSWORD. I tried testing to see if I could log on without
>a password, and it worked. Is there anything else I would need to do to
>activate the password authentication? Does the pg_hba.conf file have
>anything to do with this? If it does, and I only want to create a
>password for this one user, would I specify it in the pg_hba.conf file?

Use pg_hba.conf to turn on password checking. Checking is done if
the connection method, database (and connection source for TCP/IP) match
a line in pg_hba.conf that requires it.

You cannot turn on checking per _user_. It's all users or none.

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