Re: ident authentication problem

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On Wednesday 21 April 2004 04:53 pm, Shanta McBain wrote:
> On April 21, 2004 13:26, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > If you follow this sage advice you'll open up your financial
> > data to anyone happening to have an account on the machine in
> > question. Anyone. Not just people who also happen to have
> > *PostgreSQL* DB accounts.
>
> Did not sound like the right thing todo That is why I asked. I am new to
> Postgres.
>
> > Including any internet user visiting your pages if they
> > succeed in getting your http server to run some script (if, of
> > course, sql-ledger is on the exposed machine, which it
> > shouldn't).
>
> It's not. But I would rather not open it to the world anyway.
>
> > > I can't locate this file.
> >
> > It's in a directory off the home dir of the PostgreSQL system
> > account running the backends.
> >
> > Do yourself a favour and read up on ident maps for PG
> > authentication.
>
> Thanks for pointing me to what I needed to read to get it to see the
> database. It now accept the authentication but complains of a missing
> directory or file.
>
> This I don't know if it is SQL-Ledger problem or in Postgres. I will look
> deeper to find out.
>
> Seems like all Mandrake setup for these kinds of services are not smooth. I
> have had repeated problems with getting MySQL, Perl DBI, etc working. Once
> I have gone through the process though it works well.

It's not really a Mandrake problem. They are pretty close to Redhat. The
problem is, that a lot of the packages, particularly rpm's are made for
redhat and not Mandrake. So often you end up using a redhat rpm because a
mandrake one was nowhere to find and the some tiny bit doesn't fit in.

UC

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