Re: requiring a password to connect

Hey,
Apart from the other suggestions, it might be that your web-server owner
has a user in pgsql, with no password. I doubt this is the case, but
thought I'd mention it anyway :)

>         I am using postgresql in conjunction with php.  The following
> code works to
>establish a database connection:
>
>$db = pgConnect("dbname=mydb user=myuser");
>
>
>         I would prefer it if this would fail to connect.  Is there a
> command line
>switch I can use to start the postmaster that will require a password to be
>passed in the connection string?  Or do I need to recompile postgresql with
>a particular option to achieve the desired behavior?  I have experienced the
>above on 6.5.3, 7.0.2 and 7.1.2.
>
>         Thank you very much for your time,
>                 ~c

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      Chris Smith
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