Re: [Re: Password?]

Jasen Betts schrieb:
> On 2009-07-08, Andreas Wenk <a.wenk@netzmeister-st-pauli.de> wrote:
>> Serge Fonville schrieb:
>>>> *argh* - more detailed to avoid confusion. The auth method 'password' in
>>>> pg_hba.conf means, that you will be asked for a password for the user you
>>>> try to create a db with. If no user is given (with createdb -U [username]),
>>>> this user is postgres ...
>>> Wasn't it that it uses the currently logged on user is used if no user
>>> is specified?
>> correct - so this will be postgres because other users are not allowed to use these
>> programs ...
>>
>> /var/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin$ ./createdb test -p 5433
>> createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL:  role "duke" does not exist
>>
>> $ sudo su postgres
>> postgres@duke-linux:~/8.4/bin$ ./createdb test -p 5433
>> postgres@duke-linux:~/8.4/bin$
>>
>> auth method in pg_hba.conf is trust in this case.
>
> if it's "trust" any user can do
>
> ~postgres/8.4/bin/createdb -U postgres -p 5433 test

nope! what you did is calling createdb as system user postgres (I believe because of the ~
sign at the beginning) *and* giving the option -U postgres. That works for sure and you
even don't need -U postgres since you are allready postgres. But leave -U postgres away as
a system user not equal to postgres ... see my example above.

Cheers

Andy