Re: no password on postgres user and pgagent

On Tue, 10 May 2016 11:08:28 +0200,
Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:

> Re: Seb 2016-05-10 <87r3daopfm(dot)fsf(at)otaria(dot)sebmel(dot)org>
>> Hello,

>> I'd like to run pgagent with the postgres user, which doesn't have a
>> password. I thought it'd be as simple as setting up an init script
>> as:

>> [ -- Begin <pgagent_start.sh>
>> ---------------------------------------------- ] #! /bin/sh

>> pgagent user=postgres host=localhost dbname=postgres

> The default pg_hba.conf requires md5 passwords for "host=localhost"
> connections.

It's actually set to "peer" in my case (v. 9.5):

[ -- <pg_hba.conf> lines 84 - 85 ------------------------------------------- ]
# Database administrative login by Unix domain socket
local all postgres peer
[ -- End of <pg_hba.conf> lines 84 - 85 ------------------------------------ ]

which is what I want; i.e. get user name from the operating system user
and check that it matches requested database user name. If I understand
right, this means that if I sudo or login as postgres, then that's what
PostgreSQL gets. If postgres has no password and I can login without
one, then the database server shouldn't ask for one. Why does pgagent
expect one?

Thanks,

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Seb