On 01/12/2013 04:29 PM, Paul S wrote:
> Thanks Adrian,
>
> Right, the pg_hba.conf file is setup with the default settings.
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> # Database administrative login by Unix domain socket
> local all postgres peer
> # TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD
> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
> local all all peer
> # IPv4 local connections:
> # host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
> host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5
> # IPv6 local connections:
> host all all ::1/128 md5
>
> I think that I may have to just use the PostgreSQL database user password to
> log in and I'll be fine. I was hoping that I could mimic what I was doing
> with SSH in that I could sudo su - postgres and then go into postgres as the
> postgres OS user without a DB password and I'd be done. I don't think the
> tunnel is allowing me to do that so I'll have to supply the postgres DB user
> password to still get in.
Well PgAdmin connects to a service(Postgres) not a user account so I
would think what you want to do would be difficult.
>
> I think I can work with that but it's just a little less optimal that I was
> hoping for. Logging in just like I do in SSH would have been much easier.
>
> Thanks,
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> Paul
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Adrian Klaver
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