Re: password-less access, without using pg_hba

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: password-less access, without using pg_hba
Date: 2014-02-07 02:42:31
Message-ID: 52F44817.30107@hogranch.com
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On 2/6/2014 6:07 PM, Reece Hart wrote:
> I'd like to provide public access, without a password, to a database
> hosted on Amazon RDS.
>
> I'm familiar with using pg_hba.conf to enable trust (no)
> authentication for a user. pg_hba.conf is not available to DBAs on RDS.
>
> Is there any other way to achieve password-less login in postgresql? I
> tried alter user password NULL.

.pgpass is supported by any libpq based client.

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