BUG #4572: Incorrect error message when using wrong password with hostssl

From: "Tommy Gildseth" <tommy(dot)gildseth(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: BUG #4572: Incorrect error message when using wrong password with hostssl
Date: 2008-12-09 07:04:52
Message-ID: 200812090704.mB974qJL077373@wwwmaster.postgresql.org
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The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 4572
Logged by: Tommy Gildseth
Email address: tommy(dot)gildseth(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no
PostgreSQL version: 8.3.x,8.2.x
Operating system: Linux
Description: Incorrect error message when using wrong password with
hostssl
Details:

When logging into postgresql requiring SSL, providing the wrong password
will produce an incorrect and confusing error message.

========== pg_hba.conf ===============
hostssl all postgres 192.168.123.234 255.255.255.255 md5
======================================

========== Logging in: ===============
[postgres(at)anothermachine ~]$ psql -W -h pgtest02
Password: <type in bogus password>
psql: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "192.168.123.234", user
"postgres", database "postgres", SSL off
======================================

The error message returned here is clearly bogus. It's correct in that there
is no pg_hba.conf entry for that user/host, with SSL off, but imo. it should
have returned the more usefull error message:
======================================
psql -W -h pgtest02
Password: <type in bogus password>
psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
======================================

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