default superuser

Gauthier, Dave wrote:

Hi

I created a database instance and a database takign whatever defaults
were in effect with regard to defining a superuser and password. What
are those defaults? How do I change the password for the superuser?

You created a database or a cluster? What command did you use? I suggest
you look at:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/user-manag.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/managing-databases.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/client-authentication.html

Sincerely,

Joshau D. Drake

I think I created a cluster (initdb) and then a database (createdb
mypgdb).
I believe I am the default superuser (my linux uid). At least I appear
to own everything using "psql -l". And I needn't identify myself when
making a db connection through that user.

I then created a user that I wanted to grant "all" to and that seemed to
work...

create user foo password 'foopass';
grant all on database mypgdb to foo;

And I can connect using the "foo" user (psql -U foo mypgdb). But it
doesn't seem to require the password. Would you know why? I would like
to use the password protection.

-dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com]
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:26 PM
To: Gauthier, Dave
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] default superuser

Gauthier, Dave wrote:

Hi

I created a database instance and a database takign whatever defaults
were in effect with regard to defining a superuser and password. What

are those defaults? How do I change the password for the superuser?

You created a database or a cluster? What command did you use? I suggest

you look at:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/user-manag.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/managing-databases.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/client-authentication.html

Sincerely,

Joshau D. Drake

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:59:28 -0500
"Gauthier, Dave" <dave.gauthier@intel.com> wrote:

And I can connect using the "foo" user (psql -U foo mypgdb). But it
doesn't seem to require the password. Would you know why? I would
like to use the password protection.

The problem is that you don't have your authentication configured. That
is discussed in detail here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/client-authentication.html

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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