Re: Authenticating user `postgres'

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Offhand I'd think it foolish to make it easier to get into the
> superuser account than regular accounts anyway.

Not so much if the database only listens on unix domain socket, which
has tight permissions, and a UNIX user has to identify himself with a
valid password anyways.

> One possibility is to run an IDENT daemon and allow ident-authenticated
> connections from 127.0.0.1.  Then "pg_dumpall -h localhost" would work
> without a password.  Trusting other people's IDENT daemons is widely
> considered a bad idea, but I see no reason not to trust your own.

I don't want to enable TCP connections at all.

Besides, I want other local clients to use passwords.

Thanks for your reply,
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Arcady Genkin
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