Re: [GENERAL] User authentication blues

On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Jeffrey Napolitano wrote:

> Your pg_hba.conf listing does not include a password FILE - the format
> is:
>
> host    allowedDB's    IPaddys        mask    AUTHTYPE    PASSWORDFILE
>                         (such as    (such as
>                         "password",    "mypasswords")
>                         "trust", etc)

AFAIK in the newer versions of PostgreSQL (6.3.2) this is not needed
anymore because the password is stored in a system table (pg_shadow, only
readable by the postgres superuser).

Maarten

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