Re: enhance documentation for SSH-tunneled access to database - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Dave Page
Subject Re: enhance documentation for SSH-tunneled access to database
Date
Msg-id 03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B844B602@mail.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to enhance documentation for SSH-tunneled access to database  ("Ralf Hauser" <ralfhauser@gmx.ch>)
List pgadmin-support
Hi Ralf,

I have made a couple of minor changes to
http://www.pgadmin.org/pgadmin2/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=11 that should
address these issues. Thanks for your email!

Regards, Dave.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Hauser [mailto:ralfhauser@gmx.ch]
> Sent: 13 September 2003 16:00
> To: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] enhance documentation for
> SSH-tunneled access to database
>
>
> Dave,
>
> Thanks for the quick help.
> In the meantime, I solved the problem:
> 'enable "tcpip_socket" in postgresql.conf'.
> It would be great if Fred could integrate these two newbie
> obstacles into the documentation.
>
> Rgds r.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Page [mailto:dpage@vale-housing.co.uk]
> > Sent: Samstag, 13. September 2003 14:38
> > To: hauser@acm.org; pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> > Subject: RE: [pgadmin-support] enhance documentation for
> SSH-tunneled
> > access to database
> >
> >
> > Hi Ralf,
> >
> > Unfortunately I never used SSL with pgAdmin II myself, so
> cannot add
> > to the detail in the howto, however you might like to try
> pgAdmin III
> > (currently at beta 2 release) which includes built in SSL
> support and
> > provides all the core functionality of pgAdmin II. You can find
> > pgAdmin III at www.pgadmin.org/pgadmin3/.
> >
> > Regards, Dave.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ralf Hauser [mailto:ralfhauser@gmx.ch]
> > > Sent: 13 September 2003 11:19
> > > To: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> > > Subject: [pgadmin-support] enhance documentation for SSH-tunneled
> > > access to database
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > "How do I... Use pgAdmin II via a secure (encrypted) connection?"
> > > (http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2/pgadmin2.php?ContentID
> > =11) is an excellent start.
> >
> > I am using the same set-up for mysql for months without a problem.
> >
> > To get this also working with postgres, I tried many
> approaches with
> > no success, but then, I noticed that
> >
> > 1) even on the server on which postmaster/the database is
> running, I
> > get
> >
> > <<[root@calimero data]# psql -h localhost -p 5432 -U myUserId myDB
> > psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
> >         Is the server running on host localhost and accepting
> >         TCP/IP connections on port 5432?>>
> > so, perhaps, something needs to be changed on the server side first?
> >
> > 2) secondly, Fred says to enhance pg_hba.conf, but he
> doesn't hint how
> > to get that additional IP address: Especially since more and more
> > db-servers are behind firewalls and NATed, this is not so trivial.
> >
> > My finding so far is that "/sbin/ifconfig" provides this additional
> > IP-address that is not visible to the outside.
> >
> > Anyway, any hints how to solve 1) would be highly appreciated!
> >
> >     Ralf
> >
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