Re: ident authentication problem

> I am running Mandrake 10 and would like to get sql-ledger to access the
> database.

> the included faq
> has this to say
>
> Do yourself a favour and change authentication type in pg_hba.conf to
>
> local           all              trust
If you follow this sage advice you'll open up your financial
data to anyone happening to have an account on the machine in
question. Anyone. Not just people who also happen to have
*PostgreSQL* DB accounts.

> Http://computersystemconsulting.ca Web hosting and Application Hosting.
Including any internet user visiting your pages if they
succeed in getting your http server to run some script (if, of
course, sql-ledger is on the exposed machine, which it
shouldn't).

> I can't locate this file.
It's in a directory off the home dir of the PostgreSQL system
account running the backends.

Do yourself a favour and read up on ident maps for PG
authentication.

Karsten
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