Re: pgbouncer configuration

On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 19:46 -0500, Chris Stephens wrote:
> I'm trying to run pgbouncer but am having trouble with what looks like a very simple configuration.
>
> centos 7
> postgres 12
> pgbouncer 1.15
>
> we are already using pam for database auth. pgbouncer was compiled with --with-pam. there is a /etc/pam.d/pgbouncer config file copied from the one currently being used for postgres auth.
>
> i can list the whole config file if needed but i get the following when trying to start pgbouncer up:
>
> [postgres(at)lsst-pgsql02 ~]$ pgbouncer -d /etc/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.ini
> 2021-04-27 19:37:34.256 CDT [10653] ERROR invalid value "pam" for parameter auth_type in configuration (/etc/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.ini:118)
> 2021-04-27 19:37:34.256 CDT [10653] FATAL cannot load config file
>
> [postgres(at)lsst-pgsql02 pgbouncer]$ egrep "auth_type" pgbouncer.ini
> auth_type = pam
>
> any ideas?

I'd suspect that pgBouncer is not built with PAM support after all.

Run "ldd" on the executable and see if it links with OpenLDAP.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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