| From: | Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
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| To: | "Verhaag Geert (GEN) *EXTERN*" <g(dot)verhaag(at)maastrichtuniversity(dot)nl>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Unable to fire up the server when modifying client authentication setting! |
| Date: | 2013-11-26 12:03:07 |
| Message-ID: | A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B17C601E5@ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at |
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Verhaag Geert wrote:
> I’m currently using version 8.4, and installed everything seems to work properly.
>
> However, I’m having trouble with setting client authentication properly!
>
> Client authentication is controlled by the configuration file named pg_hba.conf.
>
> When I add the option map=myname like this:
>
> local all all trust map=myname
>
> to the file mentioned above the server won’t fire up anymore! No messages in the log?
>
> By the way I added myname to the pg_ident.conf file like:
>
> # MAPNAME SYSTEM-USERNAME PG-USERNAME
> myname systemusername pgusername
>
> What is wrong here?
I guess you want "ident" authentication.
You should replace "trust" with "ident".
By the way, you don't need to restart the server for such a change.
Using "pg_ctl reload" to send a SIGHUP would do the trick.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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