Re: ident authentication problem

Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > I am running Mandrake 10 and would like to get sql-ledger to access the
> > database.
>
> > the included faq
> > has this to say
> >
> > Do yourself a favour and change authentication type in pg_hba.conf to
> >
> > local           all              trust
> If you follow this sage advice you'll open up your financial
> data to anyone happening to have an account on the machine in
> question. Anyone. Not just people who also happen to have
> *PostgreSQL* DB accounts.
[snip]

How, exactly, is that?

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