Re: Question regarding authentication/login

Like most problems, this was stupidity on my part!

I had an old test copy of postgres running on the same port of this windows
laptop, so of course I was connecting to that instead of the SSH tunnel
that was set up by Putty.

Problem solved, thanks for the help

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Chris Deadlock <cdeadlock(at)vendtxt(dot)com>wrote:

> Hello, I have installed postgres version 8.4.9 from the debian repository.
>
> I set up a username and password, and was able to create my tables and add
> information to the database from a java application running through a
> remote SSH tunnel.
>
> Then I moved this same command line program onto the same server as the
> database resides : when I create tables from this location I can only
> access them from this local machine: I can use psql -U user dbname (same
> login and pass as the remote connection) and i can select * from
> users; and it shows all the entries just fine.
>
> But if I try to connect using the same login and password through a remote
> SSH tunnel, I can not see any of the tables created from the CLI on the
> server... If I create the tables from the remote location I can query them
> fine.
>
> The exact error message is : ERROR: relation "users" does not exist
> (Either from pgAdmin GUI, or from the command line interface that comes
> with pgAdmin )
>
> Am I misunderstanding something fundamental about user authentication? How
> does postgres distinguish localhost connections from SSH tunneled
> connections? Is it possible that somehow connecting form a local linux-user
> account is creating hidden tables within my otherwise remotely accessable
> database?
>
> Thank you
>
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