"Will Buik" <willbuik@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm trying to password protect both the superuser role and another role that > I created later with less privileges but I can't seem to get it to work. I > have tried using the command *ALTER USER user WITH PASSWORD 'password';* and > it responds with *ALTER ROLE* but it seems to have no effect at all. Even > after I've password protected the role I can login to it with the > *psql*command without a password. You need to change pg_hba.conf to select a password-based authentication mode ("md5" is the one usually used). See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/client-authentication.html regards, tom lane