Re: authentication

Chris Faulkner writes:

> I am using postgres in the cygwin environment. I have two services set up -
> one launches it with no networking and one with networking so that it runs
> on port 5432.

You're going to have a pretty hard time connecting to a PostgreSQL server
without networking.  Or what is your definition of no networking?

> # TYPE  DATABASE        USER    IP-ADDRESS      IP-MASK         METHOD
> local           all             all                                             password

> WHatever change I make to this, psql never prompts when running on the same
> machine.

Perhaps you're not connecting through a Unix-domain socket, but instead
via TCP/IP?

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net