Comments on: Basic postgresql server setup

By: Caleb Cushing ( xenoterracide )

Caleb Cushing ( xenoterracide ) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:33:55 +0000

Also you shouldn’t give your newly created user the superuser rights. that’s the same as logging in as the postgres user, which for your database is the equivalent of being root on your box on the time, but having given uid 0 a different name.

By: Caleb Cushing ( xenoterracide )

Caleb Cushing ( xenoterracide ) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:21:23 +0000

“NOTE: The only user that can open the PostgreSQL prompt without defining a database to work with is the user postgres. Other users would have to gain access to the command prompt with a command like:”

that’s simply not true. psql by default assumes that the username and the database name that you are trying to connect to is the same as that of your system account. the default postgres username and database is postgres.

If I as xenoterracide create a database named xenoterracide owned by a username xenoterracide then all I have to do from a prompt (if the db is on localhost) is type psql.

see my post on this subject here http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com/2009/03/postgresql-initial-setup-users-and.html and more on hba here http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com/2009/08/postgresql-initial-setup-authentication.html

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By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:04:53 +0000

One more thing you will likely need to do:

Look at the file pg_hba.conf. It is probably in /etc/postgresql. It says who is allowed to connect, and how.

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