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Re: [GENERAL] User authentication blues

Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>

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From: Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>
To: Jeffrey Napolitano <jnapoli@setech.com>
Cc: M.Boekhold@ITS.TUDelft.NL, General Questions for PostgreSQL <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1998-07-30T18:28:13Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
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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