Re: Unable to login with phppgadmin on a remote host

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.

>> 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

>> 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