Hey,
Apart from the other suggestions, it might be that your web-server owner
has a user in pgsql, with no password. I doubt this is the case, but
thought I'd mention it anyway :)
> I am using postgresql in conjunction with php. The following
> code works to
>establish a database connection:
>
>$db = pgConnect("dbname=mydb user=myuser");
>
>
> I would prefer it if this would fail to connect. Is there a
> command line
>switch I can use to start the postmaster that will require a password to be
>passed in the connection string? Or do I need to recompile postgresql with
>a particular option to achieve the desired behavior? I have experienced the
>above on 6.5.3, 7.0.2 and 7.1.2.
>
> Thank you very much for your time,
> ~c
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