Re: Unable to login with phppgadmin on a remote host

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 07:37, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
<ioguix(at)free(dot)fr> wrote:
> On 18/08/2011 13:54, Tom Browder wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:40,  (ioguix) de Rorthais <ioguix(at)free(dot)fr> wrote:
>>> On 18/08/2011 01:20, Tom Browder wrote:
...
>>>> However, I cannot successfully login with phppgadmin on the remote host.
>>>>
>>>> I always get "login failed" whether I use myuser or postgres.
>>>
>>> Do you have errors in your postgresql log files about this connections
>>> attempts ?
>>
>> No, only some sql errors from an early user creation.
> You should have some FATAL or ERROR entries about your attempts to
> connect. That means phpPgAdmin doesn't even reach PostgreSQL.
...
>>> Please, show us your full pg_hba.conf (without comments and public IP
>>> address).
>>
>> My pg_hba.conf:
>>
>> local  all            all                                     md5
>> host  all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5
>> host  all             all             ::1/128                 md5
>> host  all             admin        xx.xxx.xxx.xx/32         md5
>> host  all             postgres       xx.xxx.xxx.xx/32         md5
>
> sounds good.
> That means that you did set a password to user postgres ? did you try to
> login with the following commands using your own system user (not postgres):
>
>  psql postgres postgres

That exact command works.

(Note that I am logged in via ssh onto the remote postgresql host as
my normal system user 'tom'.)

>  psql -h 127.0.0.1 postgres myuser

That exact command works.

> first one use unix socket, second one inet.

Is there a possibility my postgresql.conf file needs changing to get
good logging? I originally changed no defaults and my system
postgresql start file puts all info into "server.log" in $PGDATA.

This morning I changed one line in that conf file (and then did a reload):

#logging_collector = off # Enable capturing of stderr and csvlog
logging_collector = on # Enable capturing of stderr and csvlog

I also checked /var/log/auth.log and see no evidence of login
attempts from my two postgres users except vial local logins.

Thanks, Jehan-Guillaume.

-Tom