Postgresql does not prompt for password

Question

I have a postgresql 8.3 db set up on linux box, together with a user postgres The pg_hba.conf reads

local   all         postgres                          ident          


        

Answer 1

Are you sure you did restart or reload of PostgreSQL after pg_hba.conf change?

If yes, type this command from postgres system account (shell):

psql -qAt -c "show hba_file" | xargs grep -v -E '^[[:space:]]*#'

If this will not help - show us output of the command.