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From: mkrist@binf.ku.dk
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Trouble setting up access privileges
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:41:37 +0200
Message-ID: <20080915174137.GB16666@optiplex36> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508.1221498488@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <20080915154340.GA15530@optiplex36>
	<508.1221498488@sss.pgh.pa.us>

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 01:08:08PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
...
> forgot to SIGHUP the postmaster, (4) you have a ~/.pgpass file on
> the client side that is silently supplying a password in some of
> these cases.

It seems the user had this ~/.pgpass file and that this was the reason. Thanks
for pointing out the possibility. 

Why isn't this ~/.pgpass file documented in
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/auth-pg-hba-conf.html ?

Again, thank you, I appreciate it.

-- 
Michael Kristensen <mkrist@binf.ku.dk>
IT-studentermedhj?lper / Sysadm student aid
BINF



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