newbie question

[Tena Sakai]

Hi Daniel,

> you can probably figure it out by looking at your pg_hba.conf file

I will try.  Thank you for your help and suggestions.  I appreciate it.

Regards,

Tena

--- On Wed, 5/4/11, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

From: Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net>
Subject: Re: newbie question
To: "Tena Sakai" <sakaitena at yahoo.com>
Cc: "MacPorts Users" <macports-users at lists.macosforge.org>
Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 11:36 AM

On May 4, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Tena Sakai wrote:
> 
> OK, I agree.  But then how can I manipulate password and
> other attributes of those accounts that are hidden?

dscl

(supposedly workgroup manager from the Server Admin Tools works too, but I haven't used it).

> >> Bingo!  it doesn't ask password anymore!
> 
> > you probably have a ~/.pgpass with the password you set for
> > the postgres user saved in it (and the permissions on the file
> > were probably set for the postgres group).
> 
> No, I don't have one.  (I was thinking of making one, though):
> 
>   $ ls ~/.pgpass
>   ls: /Users/tws/.pgpass: No such file or directory

well, then I have no idea why changing the groups your user account was in would have affected postgres, you can probably figure it out by looking at your pg_hba.conf file
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