Re: hostnossl in pg_hba.conf demands a password

Thanks, Tom,

I'll check to see if it's trying an SSL comnection, but being that I logged into this server, and I know that I don't have an .ssh subdirectory in my home dir, I didn't think an SSL connection would be tried. We'll see.

Thanks again,
Jay

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> On Nov 14, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> The only entries are a local connection line with md5 authentication specified and a line for local replication with a trust authentication. Both of these entries do seem to be working properly.
>
> So the client is trying an SSL connection first (which would be the
> default behavior for libpq at least), and that falls through the
> hostnossl line and is captured by the md5 line. Hence you get a
> password prompt. The client has no way to know that a non-SSL
> connection would have gotten a different response.
>
> You could change the md5 line to hostssl, perhaps. Or configure
> the client to try non-SSL first (see sslprefer).
>
> regards, tom lane