Re: [GENERAL] ODBC driver

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Kevin Heflin wrote:

> > Did you create a Postgres user with the 'createuser' tool (usually run by
> > the postgres superuser (but not root))?  This allows designated users to
> > use postgresql databases, and in some cases, create and destroy and even
> > set database permissions for other users.
>
> Also, don't you have to set up Postgres to accept users from another
> machine.. I forget exactly where you do that.

That'd be the pg_hba.conf file, and you can set up everything from IP
based authentication to password authentication.

Brett W. McCoy
                                        http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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