Re: JDBC / JBoss connection problem on Debian

I'd guess that upgrading your OS altered your MD5 encryption / decryption
algorithyms or more likely -- the "salt" ...

Did your try changing the password for the postgres account in both the
shell account and in postgres ?

"Joost Kraaijeveld" <J(dot)Kraaijeveld(at)Askesis(dot)nl> wrote in message
news:1135347327(dot)6002(dot)12(dot)camel(at)localhost(dot)localdomain(dot)(dot)(dot)
> Hi,
>
> After an update of my Debian Etch AMD64 I could suddenly not use the
> "postgres" account with an empty password to connect from JBoss to my
> database, which used to work OK. I only could get it working again after
> I changed the following line in pg_hba.conf:
>
> ...
> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
>
> to
> ..
> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
>
> Besides that I do not know if there are any security implications I
> should be worried about: what could be the cause of the problem?
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Groeten,
>
> Joost Kraaijeveld
> Askesis B.V.
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>
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