Failure to connect remotely to postgresql with JDBC

Hi,

I am using Postgresql 6.3.2 running on a Sun Solaris. The interface I am
using is JDBC.

When I connect, I received the following error messages:

java.sql.SQLException: User authentication failed
at postgresql.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:229)
at postgresql.Driver.connect(Driver.java:87)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:91)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:134)
at ConLayer.Select(ConLayer.java:149)
at ConLayerTest.main(ConLayerTest.java:82)
java.lang.NullPointerException
at ConLayer.Select(ConLayer.java:165)
at ConLayerTest.main(ConLayerTest.java:82)

The url is:

jdbc:postgresql://holly.cs.mu.oz.au:5432/conlayer?user=me&password=abc&
auth=password

conlayer is the database name.

That is, the server is holly.cs.mu.oz.au and the port is 5432. postmaster
is definitely running on holly. The environment variables PGHOST has been
set to holly.cs.mu.oz.au and PGPORT has been set to 5432. PGLIB and
PGDATA has also been set correctly. The pg_hba.conf has been set to accept
all users from anywhere but this doesn't helps. Can someone please help?

Thanks in advance
Kelvin
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Kelvin Sin

University of Melbourne
BSc (Mathematics) / BE (Software) undergraduate

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