"Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 06/03/2008, Ralph Smith <smithrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Even after reloading and restarting the DB, which shouldn't be necessary, >> smithrn still gets in w/o any password checks. >> How come? > Impossible to answer w/o knowing any entries in your pg_hba.conf I think the OP expects the act of assigning a password to a particular role to be enough to cause password authentication to be used. It's not: you have to make sure that pg_hba.conf specifies that auth method. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend