* Ralf Ronneburger wrote on Thu, May 16, 2002 at 16:51 +0200:
This should still work. Postgres is normally not very strict with access-privileges, any user can connect to the server with "psql template1 -U postgres".
Postgres *is* strict - as strict as configured in pg_hdb.conf. The only thing that happens here: psql (the CLI) uses the user name as default for the database user name. postgres is by default the database admin account. But other users are not known. You can override the default with -U <user>, usually you need to specify a database (if you do not have a database called root :)) also. Since pg_hdb.conf configures localhost to be allowed w/o password authentication, psql can connect now. Usually it is not a good idea to have all databases accessible w/o password if you have local users on the machine, but you haven't I hope :)
So if harden_suse fixes that, I'd not be surprised.
What do you want to fix? Feel free to make pg_hba.conf more restrictive, but don't forget to set user passwords before ;) oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.