What does your pg_hba.conf say? On Wed, 30 May 2001, Marcel Gsteiger wrote: > My postgres 7.1 now runs for several weeks without problems. Today I > suddenly got aware of the fact that no passwords are needed anymore to > login to any database. > > Seems that the security system has been defeated on some way. pg_dumpall > -g still shows the correct users and passwords. > > I don't know what went wrong here. This is a very severe situation for > me, so I would much appreciate any hint on how I could check the > security system and make it work again. > > My postmaster gets started with the following command: > > su -l postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -o "-i" start >/dev/null 2>&1" < > /dev/null ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
