"Will Buik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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