Re: md5 and trust and pg_hba.conf

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 10:46 PM Rossi, Maria <maria(dot)rossi(at)jackson(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi,
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> Question on pg_hba.conf. I have these entries:
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> host all psgdba localhost trust
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> host all psgdba 127.0.0.1/32 trust
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> host all gd07 localhost trust
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> host all gd07 127.0.0.1/32 trust
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Can you post the whole of pg_hba.conf file?

You might have some other entry that is taking precedence.

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> Command to logon to Postgres:
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> /usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/psql -d postgres
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If you don't have PGHOST set then most likely you are not going over a tcp
connection (which is what host entries in pg_hba are used for). Instead the
local entries of pg_hba are taking effect.

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> If I am logged on ‘gd07’ at the server , it lets me log-on to Postgres
> without prompting for password
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do you have a *.pgpass* file in the home directory?

> If I am logged on as ‘psgdba’, it prompts for password.
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> As you can see, both have ‘trust’, but ‘gd07’ is the instance owner.
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> Why does ‘psgdba’ prompts? What I am missing?
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> Your help would be much appreciated.
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> Thanks.
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> Maria
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