[Dbconfig-common-devel] Status of "editing pg_hba.conf"

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:59:18AM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > *however*, i think at this point it's become more or less a moot issue,
> > because (iirc) the default postgres configuration allows password-based
> > authentication for connections on the loopback device,
I cannot find any evidence supporting this. If it were so ...

> > so applications requiring passwords should "just work" on the local host
... then, yes, there would not be any problem.

Anyways, the SU-inside-PostgreSQL solution works, too.

Karsten
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