On 05/21/2018 10:48 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> When I start my postgresql server I get 11 messages reporting that
> "password
> authentication failed for user 'postgres'" spaced about ~.5sec apart.
> I increased the logging level to INFO, and added the application name to
> the
> message format (after the pid) which resulted in:
>
> 2018-05-21 23:04:44.395 MDT [20232][[unknown]] [unknown]@[unknown]
> LOG: connection received: host=[local]
> 2018-05-21 23:04:44.395 MDT [20232][[unknown]] postgres@postgres
> FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
> 2018-05-21 23:04:44.395 MDT [20232][[unknown]] postgres@postgres
> DETAIL: Password does not match for user "postgres".
> Connection matched pg_hba.conf line 90: "local all all md5"
>
> This is on a Ububuntu-18.04 machine with postgresql-10.3 from Ubuntu.
> As distributed
> the pg_hba.conf line mentioned used "peer" authentication method, I have
> changed to
> "md5". When I change back to "peer" the error messages go away. The
> processes are
> too short-lived for me to catch with ps. Successful connect message
> example:
>
> 2018-05-21 23:25:13.577 MDT [21080][[unknown]] [unknown]@[unknown]
> LOG: connection received: host=[local]
> 2018-05-21 23:25:13.578 MDT [21080][[unknown]] postgres@postgres
> LOG: connection authorized: user=postgres database=postgres
> 2018-05-21 23:25:13.579 MDT [21080][psql] postgres@postgres LOG:
> disconnection: session time: 0:00:00.002 user=postgres database=postgres
> host=[local]
>
> My question is, how can I find out where the connections are coming from
> so I can
> modify them to provide passwords (so I can go back to "md5")? Are there
From the error messages it looks like your connections are already
supplying passwords. I am guessing that the issue is that you have not
created a password for the database user postgres. See the below:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL
Basic Server Setup
for how to do that. If you have set up a password then the connections
are using the wrong one. For catching the connections uncomment and set
to on:
log_connections
log_disconnections
in postgresql.conf.
You might also try something like:
watch -n 0.5 'ps aux|grep post'
to see if you catch the connections from the system end.
> startup-
> time connections made by postgresql itself or is this likely from some
> Ubuntu-
> specific configuration?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
