Re: BUG #17249: Bug in .pgpass search and/or documentation thereof, Ubuntu 13.4-4

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Hillman <david(at)kapitaltrading(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #17249: Bug in .pgpass search and/or documentation thereof, Ubuntu 13.4-4
Date: 2021-10-28 16:17:27
Message-ID: 488035.1635437847@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Your original email demonstrates that, absent -h localhost, psql is looking
> for and finding a local socket and thus the first matching entry is a
> "local" one which does not require password entry because it is set for
> "peer". This is working as intended.

Indeed. If you don't like the results you're getting, you need to go
adjust your pg_hba.conf file. Right now, you've got it set to apply
different authentication rules for Unix-socket and localhost connections,
and you apparently don't want that.

regards, tom lane

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