Jasen Betts schrieb:
On 2009-07-08, Andreas Wenk <a.w...@netzmeister-st-pauli.de> wrote:
Serge Fonville schrieb:
*argh* - more detailed to avoid confusion. The auth method 'password' in
pg_hba.conf means, that you will be asked for a password for the user you
try to create a db with. If no user is given (with createdb -U [username]),
this user is postgres ...
Wasn't it that it uses the currently logged on user is used if no user
is specified?
correct - so this will be postgres because other users are not allowed to use 
these
programs ...

/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin$ ./createdb test -p 5433
createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL:  role "duke" does not 
exist

$ sudo su postgres
postg...@duke-linux:~/8.4/bin$ ./createdb test -p 5433
postg...@duke-linux:~/8.4/bin$

auth method in pg_hba.conf is trust in this case.

if it's "trust" any user can do

~postgres/8.4/bin/createdb -U postgres -p 5433 test

nope! what you did is calling createdb as system user postgres (I believe because of the ~ sign at the beginning) *and* giving the option -U postgres. That works for sure and you even don't need -U postgres since you are allready postgres. But leave -U postgres away as a system user not equal to postgres ... see my example above.

Cheers

Andy

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