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From: John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>
To: Venkata B Nagothi <nag1010@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: hostnossl in pg_hba.conf demands a password
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:23:05 -0500
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The only entries are a local connection line with md5 authentication specified and a line for local replication with a trust authentication. Both of these entries do seem to be working properly.

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> On Nov 14, 2016, at 4:20 PM, Venkata B Nagothi <nag1010@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:10 AM, John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been experimenting a bit with both 9.4.10 and 9.6.0 and both of these are exhibiting the same behavior. I've been setting up zabbix and the local agent requires a trust connection. So, if my pg_hba.conf has a line:
>> 
>> host         all                monitoring.          127.0.0.1/32.    trust
>> 
>> It works as I expected, but if I change "host" to "hostnossl" and reload, it then demands a password for the monitoring user.
>> 
>> The servers are configured with SSL and all other connections require "hostssl", but the zabbix agent is not configured with SSL. I'd say this behavior is a bug, but maybe I missed reading the fine manual somewhere. Has anyone else seen this or maybe the docs need updating.
>  
> Do you have any other entries (for 127.0.0.1) in pg_hba.conf which is generating this behaviour ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Venkata B N
> Database Consultant
> 
> Fujitsu Australia

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