Re: LDAP configuration problem

>
> The rpms for Fedora 6 from www.postgresql.com don't seem to have the
> LDAP support built-in, it shows that



Hmmm... that isn't good. Although, do we want to -require- ldap?

Joshua D. Drake


>
> invalid entry in file "/pub/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf" at line 79, token
> "ldap"
>
> But after download the source, recompile with "--with-ldap", it worked
> perfectly. I wonder if this could be built in the rpm as the default
> in the future.
>
> Thanks and happy new year.
>
> Wenjian
>
>
> On 12/29/06, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>         Wenjian Yang wrote:
>         >
>         > Sorry, below are the lines in the log file:
>         >
>         > LOG:  invalid entry in file "/pub/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf" at
>         line 78,
>         > token "ldap://dc.domain.com/dc=domain^Adc=com;DOMAIN\"
>         > FATAL:  missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file
>         > HINT:  See server log for details.
>         >
>         > And the pg_hba.conf line 78, is
>         >
>         > host  all  all  0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0/>   0.0.0.0
>         <http://0.0.0.0/>
>         > ldap://dc.domain.com/dc=domain,dc=com/DOMAIN\
>         >
>         > Since the previous email, I had the same problem on another
>         FC6 x86_64 box.
>
>         What does the message show if you change the line per my
>         suggestion
>         below? (note the extra ldap token)
>
>         //Magnus
>
>
>         > On 12/29/06, *Magnus Hagander* <magnus@hagander.net
>         > <mailto:magnus@hagander.net>> wrote:
>         >
>         >     Wenjian Yang wrote:
>         >     > Hi,
>         >     >
>         >     > I've just installed 8.2.0 from rpms on FC6 i386 and
>         wanted to try out
>         >     > the built-in LDAP support.
>         >     >
>         >     > The following LDAP authentication was added to
>         "pg_hba.conf"
>         >     >
>         >     > host  all  all  0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0>
>         <http://0.0.0.0>  0.0.0.0
>         >     <http://0.0.0.0> <http://0.0.0.0 >
>         >     > ldap://dc.domain.com/dc=domain,dc=com/DOMAIN\
>         >     >
>         >     > However when trying to connect from another machine,
>         it gave the error
>         >     > "FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file".
>         >     >
>         >     > Looking at the server log, the comma in
>         "dc=domain,dc=com" has
>         >     become ^A
>         >     > while all the other characters are intact.
>         >     >
>         >     > Does this have to do with some other packages or I
>         specified the the
>         >     > line wrong? Thanks in advance.
>         >
>         >
>         >     The first thing you've done wrong is not actually
>         include the log lines
>         >     that had something to do with it. What are those server
>         log lines?
>         >
>         >     Anyway, I beleive you should write:
>         >     host all all 0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0> 0.0.0.0
>         <http://0.0.0.0> ldap
>         >     ldap://dc.domain.com/dc=domain,dc=com/DOMAIN\
>         >
>         >
>         >     //Magnus
>         >
>         >
>
>
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