Re: Password entry in pgadmin3; pg_hba.conf vs .pgpass. Permissioning issue? - Mailing list pgadmin-support

On 04/12/2012 16:56, Andrew Taylor wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Thanks for your help. I have this working but don't completely
> understand what I did.
> 
> 1. Here is how the .pgpass file was originally written by pgadmin:
> 
> 127.0.0.1:5432:*:postgres:Password
> :5432:*:django_dev:Password
> 
> 2. This is the amended version which allows pgadmin to automatically
> connect to the server. All I have done is add line 3. All 3 lines seem
> to be required to log on to the server.
> 
> 127.0.0.1:5432:*:postgres:Password
> :5432:*:django_dev:Password
> localhost:5432:*:django_dev:Password

Is that second line faulty? Shouldn't the first field contain either a
hostname, an IP address or "*", but not simply nothing?

Ray.


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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
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