Re: Network authentication

Bob Parnes <rparnes(at)megalink(dot)net> writes:

> I am having trouble connecting to a database on a debian server from a
> client system, also debian. Acccording to the documentation, this is
> possible without a password and offers the following example,
>
> host template1 all 192.168.93.0 255.255.255.0 \
> ident sameuser

You need to be running an ident daemon on the client machine, and also
to be aware of the security issues involved with ident.

> In addition I noticed that if I have a second line in the pg_hba.conf file,
>
> host all all 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 md5
>
> coming before the other line, I can connect to the server database using
> a password. However, if it follows the line, I cannot. Am I doing
> something wrong here also?

Only the first matching line in pg_hba.conf is used.

-Doug