Re: How to revoke a password - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Bailey, Larry wrote:
> Thanks but it is still prompting for a password.
>

Does your pg_hba.conf require a password?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


>
> Larry Bailey
> Sr. Oracle DBA
> First American Real Estate Solution
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> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 5:10 PM
> To: Bailey, Larry
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> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] How to revoke a password
>
> Bailey, Larry wrote:
>
>>I created a user with a password. That newly created user now have
>>tables and indexes. I want to ALTER that user to exclude the password.
>>How is this accomplished without dropping and recreating the users?
>
>
> Never tried to go backwards before but:
>
> alter user foo with encrypted password '';
>
> But as I look at pg_shadow there is still a hash...
>
> You could do:
>
> update pg_shadow set passwd = '' where usename = 'foo';
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>
>>Larry Bailey
>>Sr. Oracle DBA
>>First American Real Estate Solution
>>(714) 701-3347
>>[email protected]
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