| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Ralph Smith" <smithrn(at)washington(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Requiring a password |
| Date: | 2008-03-05 20:27:45 |
| Message-ID: | 3233.1204748865@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 06/03/2008, Ralph Smith <smithrn(at)washington(dot)edu> wrote:
>> Even after reloading and restarting the DB, which shouldn't be necessary,
>> smithrn still gets in w/o any password checks.
>> How come?
> Impossible to answer w/o knowing any entries in your pg_hba.conf
I think the OP expects the act of assigning a password to a particular
role to be enough to cause password authentication to be used. It's
not: you have to make sure that pg_hba.conf specifies that auth method.
regards, tom lane
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