Jason Tesser wrote:
>I did go back and edit the files manually. As far as I can tell it is entered
>correctly in the pg_hba.conf file
>
Follow the instructions in this article:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2003-05/msg00058.php
well, the quoted stuff ... anyway, I verified that it still works with
REL7_4_STABLE. Please note that you will not be able to use any
"trusted" PAM authentification based on userid or the like, since the
process doing the lookup is the database backend allways executing under
the PostgreSQL unix user.
Jan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 3:08 PM
>To: Jason Tesser
>Cc: Pgsql (E-mail)
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pam authentication for postgres
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:29:05PM -0600, Jason Tesser wrote:
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>
>>I am trying to authenticate POstgres using Pam. How do I do this. I
>>tried using webmin on RH9 and telling it to use Pam for authentication
>>but it doesn't seem to work.
>>
>>
>
>Try hacking the pg_hba.conf file. The documentation and the source both
>seem to imply that it should work ... No idea whether webmin handles it
>though; I prefer to manually edit the files.
>
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