Re: [GENERAL] User authentication blues

On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a 6.3.2 server, and I want to use password authentication.
> So, I gave the user 'postgres' and some other user a password, and I put this
> in my pg_hba.conf:
>
> host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 password
> host all 206.31.72.11 255.255.255.255 password
>
> But I cannot connect this way using a password (psql -u). I can connect
> if I set everything to 'trust', but in that case I can even fool
> posttresql in thinking I'm user postgres while I'm logged on as the other
> user by using password authentication and using 'postgres' as username
> while supplying a fake password.

I've figured out that if I use authtype 'crypt' in pg_hba.conf I can
connect to a database. I don't have to specify 'authtype=crypt' in my
perl-script, 'authtype=passwd' works just fine. Only, I cannot use this
to connect from older clients (ie. a 6.2 system). Too bad.....

Maarten

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