Re: Access to PostgreSQL database from external world - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Sean Davis
Subject Re: Access to PostgreSQL database from external world
Date
Msg-id 200609260638.30537.sdavis2@mail.nih.gov
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In response to Access to PostgreSQL database from external world  ("Lukasz" <fatmouse@poczta.fm>)
List pgsql-novice
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 09:05, Lukasz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to install a PostgreSQL. I know how to manage the database
> itself, creae databases, user, groups and so on. But I don't know how
> to allow other users, who are outside LAN to connect to database
> through Internet.
>
> For example, my external IP is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, and my IP in the local
> network is yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy. I want to install PostgreSQL on the
> computer with yyy.yyy... What and where I need to configure to have
> access to my database from Internet?

From a security point of view, this may not be the best idea.  It is probably
a better idea to set up some kind of proxy between the internet and your
database, but we don't know what your use case is.

Sean

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