Re: create user with password

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Hi,

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, sarlav kumar wrote:

> I logged in as postgres user and created a new user 'test' with a password.
> create user test with password 'test';
>
> But when I use the -U option to login with the new user 'test', it does
> not ask for password and directly logs me in. If I use -u(without
> capitalization), it asks for the username and password. I know that -u
> is deprecated. Is there a way to get -U option to ask for the password
> before logging in?? Or am I doing anything wrong here?

You have to enable password authentication first:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/client-authentication.html

Regards,
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