Re: Host configuration

In addition to making sure you do a reload to pick up the new values, make
sure that the pg_hba.conf file you are editing is in fact the one being read
by the postmaster. There have been a few situations where a symbolic link
pointing from the data directory to a conf file living somewhere else gets
lost or some other oddity in the way Postgres is set up on a machine causes
confusion.

It looks like you've made the correct entry in the pg_hba file, so I'd look
in the direction of a reason for the file not being read. (I remember a
situation where the postgresql.conf file wasn't available & we learned that
postmaster doesn't complain if it is missing- I suppose this might be the
case with pg_hba as well, but I've never tested it.)

-Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Gregory S.
> Williamson
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 4:21 AM
> To: Paul Harrison; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Host configuration
>
>
> I had a similar problem recently and in the end it seems to have
> been me not restarting the postmaster; changes to the pg_hba.conf
> file weren't seen until then (I am sure this is documented but I
> managed to overlook it; Informix' sqlhosts file is read at
> connection time so changes are immediate - I was conditioned by
> this, I think). This was on a linux box running postgres and a
> Windows app (pgadmin) trying to connect.
>
> If this is not the case please forgive my banal suggestion ...
>
> Greg Williamson
> DBA GlobeXplorer LLC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Paul Harrison [mailto:pharrison@fame.com]
> Sent:    Fri 8/15/2003 8:54 AM
> To:    pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Cc:
> Subject:    [ADMIN] Host configuration
>
> I am running postgress 7.2 on a solaris system and trying to
> connect from a
> windows 2000 based laptop to a database on the solaris system using an
> interactive sql program (from McKoi in fact).
>
> I have altered the pg_hba.conf file by appending a line to said file:
>
> TYPE    DATABASE    IP_ADDRESS        MASK
> AUTH_TYPE AUTH_ARGUMENT
> host   all        196.45.23.27    255.255.0.0     trust
>
> This should let all other hosts connect to any database.
>
> The server was started with the -i option to allow TCP/IP connections.
> The logging from the server indicated a connection attempt was
> made but the
> error message was along the lines of -  "No pg_hba.conf entry for host
> 196.45.23.27, user fdm, database mmpoint."
>
> A similar problem was found if an attempt was made to connect from another
> UNIX system but the connection was successful when a connection was
> attempeted on the local machine.
>
> I searched for any other instance of pg_hba.conf on the UNIX box,
> in case it
> was picking up a different one but there was just the single instance.
> My connection string from my laptop was 'java -classpath
> "famejdbc.jar;pgjdbc2.jar" com.datagenic.fusion.isql org.postgresql.Driver
> jdbc:postgresql://mambar.fame.com/mmpoint fdm fdm2'
> Does anyone have an idea of what I need to do?
>
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