On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Mel Jamero wrote:
>
> > to get to the psql interface we execute:
> >
> > psql dbname -U user
> >
> > is it possible to disable the -U option such that a user cannot invoke the
> > privileges of a database superuser such as postgres?
> >
> > tried looking up pg_hba.conf regarding 'password' authentication, the man
> > pages and the archives but didn't get too lucky.
>
> Did you stop / start postgresql after the changes? Make sure you don't
> have a line for "trust" 127.0.0.1 as well.
As a followup to that, look into ident method of authentication as well.