I have an embedded application on MacOS X that bundles the postgresql apps and a database cluster with the OSX application, but am running into troubles when trying to launch the application under different usernames. In particular, if I create a database with 'initdb' under a username user1, I can launch postmaster pointing to that database cluster on any system I'm logged into with the username user1. However, as soon as I move to a system where I'm logged in as user2, postmaster will fail to launch with the error message "FATAL: role "user2" does not exist" . Does anybody know of a way around this? I can't seem to find a way to turn this type of authentication off. I also looked into creating a 'ROLE' that would give anybody access, but can't see how to do that. Thanks for your help, Jeffrey
