Re: Authentication Question - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From scott.marlowe
Subject Re: Authentication Question
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0310281652010.20217-100000@css120.ihs.com
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In response to Re: Authentication Question  ("Epps, Aaron M." <Epps.Aaron@mayo.edu>)
List pgsql-admin
And you've restarted the server and all, right?

Just for troubleshooting edit the 127.0.0.1 line for trust and restart and
see if the problem goes away.  I wonder if php changed behaviour on unix
sockets versus TCP/IP somewhere along the way.  We only use explicit host
namd / TCP/IP nowadays where I work...

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Epps, Aaron M. wrote:

>     Here's the PHP code that's being used to create the connection string.  It looks like it isn't inserting anything
ifthe host name isn't specified... 
>
>  // Build the connection string
>         $conn_str  = "user=".$this->user;
>         $conn_str .= !empty($this->pass) ? " password='".$this->pass."'" : "";
>         $conn_str .= !empty($this->host) ? " host=".$this->host : "";
>         $conn_str .= !empty($this->port) ? " port=".$this->port : "";
>         $conn_str .= " dbname=".$this->name;
>
>         $this->link = pg_connect($conn_str)
>           or $this->logger("Database connection failed!","DBI");
>         break;
>       default:
>         $this->logger("Unknown database type in init()","DBI");
>         break;
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scott.marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@ihs.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:58 PM
> To: Epps, Aaron M.
> Cc: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org'
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Authentication Question
>
> I bet your connect class is distilling your $db array down into a connect string that looks like:
>
> pg_connect("host= dbname=db user=username");
>
> And the presence of a host= in there is goofing things up.  Can you edit the class to make sure it isn't inserting a
host=part before connecting? 
>
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Epps, Aaron M. wrote:
>
> >      There is no hostname specified in the PHP code when it connects to
> > PostgreSQL, so it's using a socket connections then correct?  Also, I
> > did SIGHUP the PostgreSQL server after the configuration changes.
> > Here's what the PHP config file looks like that's used to connect to
> > PostgreSQL
> >
> > $db = array(
> >     "type"    =>    "pgsql",
> >     "host"    =>    "",
> >     "port"    =>    "",
> >     "name"    =>    "issue-tracker",
> >     "user"    =>    "webuser",
> >     "pass"    =>    "password"
> > );
> >
> >
> >     I wonder if  it's trying to authenticate because there's a username and password specified in the pg_connect()
function. However, when I remove the username and password I get the following error... 
> >
> > Warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user
"dbname=issue-tracker". in /var/www/html/issue-tracker/includes/classes/dbi.class.php on line 98 " 
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: scott.marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@ihs.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:37 PM
> > To: Tom Lane
> > Cc: Epps, Aaron M.; 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org'
> > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Authentication Question
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > "Epps, Aaron M." <Epps.Aaron@mayo.edu> writes:
> > > >     I've got an authentication questions.  I've just setup pg_hba.conf to use "local    all    all    trust"
fortesting purposes, but when the application I'm using tries to connect to the PostgreSQL Db (Using PHP) I get the
followingerror. 
> > >
> > > > " Warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user
"webuser". in /var/www/html/issue-tracker/includes/classes/dbi.class.php on line 98 " 
> > >
> > > > To me, it looks like PostgreSQL is still trying to authenticate,
> > > > even
> > > though it should be trusting all local socket connections.
> > >
> > > (1) Did you SIGHUP the postmaster after editing the config file?
> > > ("pg_ctl reload" is the easy way to do this.)  If not, it's still
> > > using whatever setup you had before.
> > >
> > > (2) It's fairly likely that PHP will try to connect via TCP/IP even
> > > for a local server.  If so, the relevant pg_hba.conf line will be
> > > the one for 127.0.0.1, not the "local" line.  "local" is for
> > > Unix-socket connections.
> >
> > This is correct if you specify a host name:
> >
> > pg_connect("host=local dbname=db")  <- TCP/IP
> > pg_connect("dbname=db") <- local unix sockets (i.e. no host=)
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