On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 01:08:08PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: ... > forgot to SIGHUP the postmaster, (4) you have a ~/.pgpass file on > the client side that is silently supplying a password in some of > these cases. It seems the user had this ~/.pgpass file and that this was the reason. Thanks for pointing out the possibility. Why isn't this ~/.pgpass file documented in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/auth-pg-hba-conf.html ? Again, thank you, I appreciate it. -- Michael Kristensen <mkrist@xxxxxxxxxx> IT-studentermedhj?lper / Sysadm student aid BINF