Re: security question

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Dave Lazar wrote:

> I have a quick question about my installation that puzzles me. pgsql
> 8.2.3on a debian box. Tested it out the database works. pgadmin III
> connects fine
> too. I used alter table on the template1 database to give postgres user a
> password. I changed pg_hba to use md5 on all connections including local.
>
> When I use psql -U postgres -d myDataBase to connect to myDataBase I do not
> get prompted for a password? When I su postgres and use psql myDatabase I
> get prompted for my password?
>
> Is there some reason why I can login using psql to a database when postgres
> is supposed to use passwords for all access?
>
> Probably a mistake I made somewhere along the line... just not sure where,
> usually I get my pgsql install working great!

Most likely psql is picking up the password from ~/.pgpass when run as your
user. Pgadmin3 stores passwords in .pgpass, so it's likely been put in there
by pgadmin. As a test - move .pgpass to .pgpass.old and try to connect via
psql -U postgres -d myDataBase again.

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