Re: Unable to login with phppgadmin on a remote host

On 18/08/2011 13:54, Tom Browder wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:40, (ioguix) de Rorthais <ioguix(at)free(dot)fr> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> On 18/08/2011 01:20, Tom Browder wrote:
> ...
>>> I have these lines in my pg_hba.conf file:
>>>
>>> host all myuser <a remote host IP>/32 md5
>>> host all postgres <a remote host IP>/32 md5
>>>
>>> However, I cannot successfully login with phppgadmin on the remote host.
>>>
>>> I always get "login failed" whether I use myuser or postgres.
>>
>> Do you have errors in your postgresql log files about this connections
>> attempts ?
>
> No, only some sql errors from an early user creation.

You should have some FATAL or ERROR entries about your attempts to
connect. That means phpPgAdmin doesn't even reach PostgreSQL.

>>> I have made these changes in /etc/phppgadmin files:
>>>
>>> apache.conf:
>>>
>>> config.inc.php:
>>> $conf['servers'][0]['desc'] = 'mars-postgresql';
>>> $conf['servers'][0]['host'] = 'local host ip address...';
>>> //$conf['extra_login_security'] = true;
>>> $conf['extra_login_security'] = false;
>>
>> What do you mean by 'local host ip address...' ? 127.0.0.1 ?
>
> No, I had put in the actual server IP address but have changed and
> tried '', and 'localhost'--none have worked.
>
>> Please, show us your full pg_hba.conf (without comments and public IP
>> address).
>
> My pg_hba.conf:
>
> local all all md5
> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
> host all all ::1/128 md5
> host all admin xx.xxx.xxx.xx/32 md5
> host all postgres xx.xxx.xxx.xx/32 md5

sounds good.
That means that you did set a password to user postgres ? did you try to
login with the following commands using your own system user (not postgres):

psql postgres postgres
psql -h 127.0.0.1 postgres myuser

first one use unix socket, second one inet.

>>> I have asked this of the phppgadmin group but I think it may be my
>>> postgresql setup.
>
>> Looks like I missed it...where ?
>
> Oops, I never sent the message, sorry, my mistake.
>
> Thanks, Jehan-Guillaume.
>
> -Tom