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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