Re: Login box bug - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Login box bug
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Msg-id E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E43072F8@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to Login box bug  (Joel Krajden <joelk@cs.concordia.ca>)
List pgadmin-support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Krajden [mailto:joelk@cs.concordia.ca]
> Sent: 23 November 2004 14:07
> To: Dave Page
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Login box bug
>
> When I log in via psql template1 postgres pg_hba.conf works
> fine. How does pgadmin know the location of pg_hba.conf to use.

It doesn't - that's the whole point. The adherence to the correct
pg_hba.conf is controlled entirely by the server. If it were possible to
bypass it from a client then any hacker could easily bypass any access
controls - this is certainly not the case.

Regards. Dave.


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