I am trying to set up pg_hba.conf for PostgreSQL 7.3. I want to limit
access to a database from a host to the set of users in a file. The
documentation suggests that this is done as follows:
host dbname @user_file 10.0.1.12 255.255.255.255 md5
However, the postmaster complains of a syntax error for lines such as
this. There is in fact a file of the appropriate name (user_file in
same directory as pg_hba.conf), readable by the backend. It contains
a list of user names, one per line.
Is this the correct setup? If not, how is this supposed to be
accomplished?
Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Brook