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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:47:32 +0530
From: Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com>
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To: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Socket & TCP connections
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On 03/29/2010 02:51 AM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> Le 28/03/2010 19:11, Nilesh Govindarajan a écrit :
>> [...]
>> I'm trying to setup PostgreSQL so that, it will not ask password when
>> connected locally (socket) whereas it will ask when connected using
>> TCP/IP. This should apply ONLY to root account. But this is not working -
>>
>> local all root trust
>> local all all md5
>> # IPv4 local connections:
>> #host all root 127.0.0.1/32 trust
>> #host all root ::1/128 trust
>> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
>> host all all ::1/128 md5
>>
>> I cannot give passwordless access to TCP/IP because then it will become
>> a big security hole using PhpPgAdmin exposed to the public.
>>
>
> Could you be more specific on what's not working? the exact error
> message would be a great help. BTW, your settings are good for local
> access, but you only allow localhost TCP/IP access.
>
>

There's no error message as such. It doesn't do what is expected - 
should not ask passwords for localhost.

If I connect as psql -U root -d postgres -h localhost, it still asks me 
for password.

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Nilesh Govindarajan
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