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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_hba.conf with the "password" auth failed to work sometimes...
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Msg-id 2193.996436466@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pg_hba.conf with the "password" auth failed to work sometimes...  (matthew wong <mattheww@skytelemedia.com>)
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matthew wong <mattheww@skytelemedia.com> writes:
>     i found sometimes when i setup the pg_hba.conf
>     to restrict to only allow a client from certain
>     ip to access a database with password auth, but
>     i found even i give an invalid password, the
>     client still can connect to this database.

Is there another line in pg_hba.conf that might allow this client
to connect?  The postmaster will use the first entry that matches
the connection source address and target database...

            regards, tom lane

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