On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:45:59PM -0400, Adam Lang wrote:
> To be a user to interact with postgres, do you have to be a user on the
> system it is installed at?
No (although it's possible to set it up that way if you choose).
Database users are independent of system users.
> i.e. Jane works from home and uses a program that access the database
> remotely. Does Jane need to be a user on the database server as well as a
> user in postgresql?
All Jane needs is a Postgres account (CREATE USER ...).
HTH,
Neil
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