Ozan Kahramanogullari <ozan.kah@gmail.com> writes: > Yes, sorry you are right. The file is indeed indicated to be where I > mentioned.
Well, there's something really screwy going on here. A server using the pg_hba.conf file you showed us should never ask for a password at all. I'm reduced to theorizing that you have two Postgres servers running on that machine, or "localhost" isn't resolving the way you think and the "psql -h localhost" cases are connecting somewhere else.
I'm not sure of the current state of affairs, but at least older versions of Apple Remote Desktop had a version of PG included ... so the idea that there's another server besides the one you know about isn't to be dismissed out-of-hand. Digging through "ps auxww" output might be informative.