Thread: Client Authentication

Hello,

I set up a PostgreSQL 8.3.1 Server on my Webserver( located somewhere in the web ).
On my local Server I use the trust method to access the server. But on my Webserver I want to use an user with password to access the Server.
So I did the following:

I created a user( as superuser ) with:
createuser -P username


Then I add a new line to the pg_hba.conf file:
host    all         username      0.0.0.0               md5

I want to access all databases from all IP-Adresses with this user.

But this fails :-(

WHere is my Error? I hope some can help me.

Thanks and greetings,
Stefan Sturm

am  Fri, dem 18.04.2008, um  8:41:17 +0200 mailte Stefan Sturm folgendes:
> Hello,
>
> I set up a PostgreSQL 8.3.1 Server on my Webserver( located somewhere in the
> web ).
> On my local Server I use the trust method to access the server. But on my
> Webserver I want to use an user with password to access the Server.
> So I did the following:
>
> I created a user( as superuser ) with:
> createuser -P username
>
>
> Then I add a new line to the pg_hba.conf file:
> host    all         username      0.0.0.0               md5
                                    ~~~~~~~

This should be an CIDR, but it's only a IP.



>
> I want to access all databases from all IP-Adresses with this user.
>
> But this fails :-(
>
> WHere is my Error? I hope some can help me.

Where ist the error-message?


Andreas
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Stefan Sturm wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I set up a PostgreSQL 8.3.1 Server on my Webserver( located somewhere
> in the web ).
> On my local Server I use the trust method to access the server. But on
> my Webserver I want to use an user with password to access the Server.
> So I did the following:
>
> I created a user( as superuser ) with:
> createuser -P username
>
>
> Then I add a new line to the pg_hba.conf file:
> host    all         username      0.0.0.0
> <http://0.0.0.0>               md5
>
> I want to access all databases from all IP-Adresses with this user.
>
> But this fails :-(
>
> WHere is my Error? I hope some can help me.
try adding a subnet mask
   host all username 0.0.0.0  0.0.0.0 md5
or a cidr mask
   host all username 0.0.0.0/0 md5

klint.

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Hello,

try adding a subnet mask
 host all username 0.0.0.0  0.0.0.0 md5
or a cidr mask
 host all username 0.0.0.0/0 md5

that's it. I don't know, why I only wrote 0.0.0.0...
Thats cleary my fault.

Thanks for all your help.

Greetings,
Urkman