Actually, postgresql.conf already has ssl set to off, but there was
one line that has sslhost in the pg_hba.conf file. It shouldn't have
mattered because it wasn't a range of IP's that exists, but I
commented it out anyway. I stopped and restarted postgres and it made
no difference.
Carol
On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Chander Ganesan wrote:
> Carol Walter wrote:
>> Well, that is a definite possibility. When I try to log in to the
>> 8.2.10. instance from another machine on our network, I get an
>> authentication error. The error log says that authentication is
>> failing but it doesn't say why. When I originally put this 8.2.10
>> instance up, I was testing enabling ssl. It's possible that
>> somehow I got ssl partially configured, and that's confusing
>> postgres. The reason I scrapped the upgrade to 8.2.10 from 8.2.4
>> was that I decided to go to 8.3.6 instead. When I really did
>> enable ssl there, I had some problems getting the certs to work
>> correctly, but I got ssl errors in the error log. Anyway, you say
>> that I should be able to get 8.2.10 working if I have to drop back
>> to that. I may just have to take the ssl bits out and reinstall
>> the whole thing.
> Why not just set "ssl=no" (or comment out the line) in your
> postgresql.conf and remove any 'hostssl' lines from your pg_hba.conf
> file. That will effectively disable SSL. IIRC There's really no
> need to rebuild/reinstall anything..
>
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