ssl tunneling in postgres 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From P Kapat
Subject ssl tunneling in postgres 8.1
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Msg-id daef5be80811180046x7f31a319kb55c180327550239@mail.gmail.com
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Re: ssl tunneling in postgres 8.1
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Hi,

I am reading the documentation from here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/ssh-tunnels.html

I am able to ssh (I use ssh keys) in to foo.com using the username
joe. My client machine (localhost) is bar.com with username sam (say).

bar$ ssh -L 3333:foo.com:5432 joe@foo.com
[this logs me into foo as joe; here i have access to a database named
"joe" using the password "joepass"]

So I try to connect to this local port (but remote server) by:

bar$ psql -h localhost -p 3333 joe -U joe -W
Password for user joe: joepass
psql: server closed the connection unexpectedly
        This probably means the server terminated abnormally
        before or while processing the request.

And on the remote ssh terminal I get the following error:

foo$ channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused

What am I doing wrong? I don't know if this matters: foo.com (remote)
runs the 8.1 server and bar.com (my client machine/localhost) runs
8.3. What server parameter needs to be tweaked?

Is this relevant: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/ssl-tcp.html ?

foo$ postgres --describe-config | grep ssl
ssl    postmaster    Connections and Authentication / Security and
Authentication    BOOLEAN    FALSE            Enables SSL connections.

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Regards
PK
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