By changing the user that I login with to a super user, everything works. I don’t get the permission denied error.

However, I only want the users to read. Being set as a super user allows the odbc user to change the data.

My problem is now down to two security points:

How do I have a user with only read access (not a super user) and not be denied viewing the table data?

How do I control access with listen_address=’localhost, specific.ip.addresses’ and not use ‘*’?

Setting listen_address=’localhost, specific.ip.addresses’ does not work, I get call failed errors asking if the server is accepting tcp/ip connections on port 5432

Thanks

From: Marc Fromm
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 1:23 PM
To: 'jsilberberg@mindspring.com'
Cc: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
Subject: RE: [ODBC] first time odbc

By editing postgresql.conf and changing listen_address = ‘*’ and editing pg_hba.conf and adding host all all my.ip.address allowed me to connect to the postgresql data base with Microsoft access.

In access I can see the table and it fields, but if I try to use the table in a querry or view the table I get an error: permission denied for relation summer_finaid; error while executing the query (#7)

Any ideas?

Also in the postgresql instead of listen_address=’*’ I tried listen_address=’localhost, my.ip.address’ but that failed to work.

How can I keep local host and only allow specific address? I don’t want to open it up to all with ‘*’

Thanks

From: jsilberberg@mindspring.com [mailto:jsilberberg@mindspring.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:13 AM
To: Marc Fromm; pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ODBC] first time odbc

Why,

That's a vintage 02-Feb-2006 driver.

I use 8.04 from Dec-2009 and even that's getting a little stale. Why not try the 9.n drivers.

Could the port(s) be blocked / restricted between you and the server and is PostgreSQL SSL support enabled --

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/ssl-tcp.html

JMS

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-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Fromm
Sent: Mar 29, 2011 1:58 PM
To: "pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org"
Subject: [ODBC] first time odbc

Before learning there was an odbc list, I sent this post to the admin list.

I am running postgres on a red hat linux server.

postgresql-python-8.1.23-1.el5_6.1

postgresql-test-8.1.23-1.el5_6.1

postgresql-libs-8.1.23-1.el5_6.1

postgresql-docs-8.1.23-1.el5_6.1

postgresql-contrib-8.1.23-1.el5_6.1

postgresql-8.1.23-1.el5_6.1

postgresql-pl-8.1.23-1.el5_6.1

postgresql-odbc-08.01.0200-3.1

postgresql-jdbc-8.1.407-1jpp.4

postgresql-server-8.1.23-1.el5_6.1

postgresql-tcl-8.1.23-1.el5_6.1

User on windows computers would like to odbc to the postgres databases.

I downloaded the windows postgres odbc drivers from the following site and installed version “psqlodbc-08_01_0200” on the windows computer.

http://ftp9.us.postgresql.org/pub/mirrors/postgresql/odbc/versions/msi/

When I configure a “File Data Source” connection in access, I cannot connect to the postgresql database. I get the message, “A connection could not be made using the file data source parameters entered. Save non-verified file DSN?”

The parameters entered are:

Database: database_name

Server: I entered the IP address of the server

User Name: I entered postgres

Password:

SSL Mode: prefer

Port: 5432 (which is the port used by postgres)

Do I need to configure the /etc/odbc.ini file? It is currently just a blank file.

Thanks for any help.

Marc