Tag: ident

To answer what is the default password for the PostgreSQL user, there isn’t one. When connecting to PostgreSQL on Linux for the first time, many admins have this question, especially if they are from the MySQL world. One important task is how to access PostgreSQL. This tutorial walks you through setting up the default user for PostgreSQL and connecting to the service.

PostgreSQL supports multiple client authentication methods including: trust, reject, md5, password, gss, sspi, krb5, ident, peer, ldap, radius, cert, and pam. Here we’re only going to concern ourselves with two: ident and md5.