Re: Adding line to pg_hba.conf for a specific group makes superuser authentication fail in 9.0?

From: Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding line to pg_hba.conf for a specific group makes superuser authentication fail in 9.0?
Date: 2011-07-27 16:39:45
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> From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

>G lyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> I'm having what's hopefully a fairly trivial issue here with
> pg_hba.conf in 9.0.4; when I add in the following line
>
>>         host    all        +ad_users  10.10.0.0/16          ldap <ldap
> details>
>
>> If I try to log in with a superuser account from the 10.10.0.0/16 network
> it appears to try to authenticate it against that entry via ldap.
>
>> This didn't happen in 8.4.8, what could I be missing?
>
> Well, a superuser is automatically considered a member of any group,
> so a match to that line would be expected IMO.  If you don't want that,
> you need some more-specific line ahead of it to catch superusers.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

Well that's all new to me, surely this is a bug?

How can I specifically catch superusers?

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