Re: Authentication by password

ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'yourpassword';

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Peter Schuller wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm sure this has been covered before, but the ML archive search engine is
> down (?!).
>
> After telling postgresql not to trust anyone, but always use password/crypt
> as the authenticaton method (pg_hdb.conf), I can't seem to get the
> postmaster to authenticate against the right password.
>
> What I've done is:
>
> 1) Create user U with createuser
> 2) Log in as postgres to a database A
> 3) UPDATE pg_user SET passwd='mypassword' WHERE usename='U';
>
> But after that 'mypassword' is not accepted when trying to log in as user U.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> I was thinking the passwords might be encrypted in the db; but then the
> "password" authentication mechanism would be impossible, so that can't be it.
>
> Thank you,
>
>