Re: Stalled post to pgsql-admin - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Thanks, Andrew for your suggestion. I should change 255.255.0.0 to 255.255.255.255 to allow users of the PC to access the database.

zhiqiang

At 13:40 21/01/03 -0500, you wrote:

Be careful with your pg_hba.conf entries (read the comments in the file itself, they are lengthy but useful).  What you configured (below) will allow anyone to connect to your database from any machine without validation, as long as their IP address has the first two blocks equal to your machine.  Are you sure that's what you want?

Zhiqiang Feng wrote:

Thank Leland and Andrews for your help. 

I successfully use pgaccess to add users and now can start postgresql as
a
normal user. 

However, it seems pgaccess requires TCP/IP port connection so I have to
include 
host
           
all    IP_address_of_pc        255.255.0.0             trust

in the pg_hba.conf.

With regards,

Zhiqiang

At 21:18 20/01/03 -0600, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote:
  

Hi Zhiqiang, You might take a look at the following link: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?SQID=449717&SPID=699&page=1 After you have postgres user properly setup, you can use pgaccess to configure other users. LelandJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zhiqiang Feng" <zf2@st-andrews.ac.uk> To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 7:52 AM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Stalled post to pgsql-admin    

Hello all, I am new to postgreSQL. I have installed postgreSQL 7.1.3-2 on Linux 7.2. If I login as root (administrator) and change user as postgres I can      

create    

database on /usr/local/pgsql/data which I created and changed its owner as postgres. root# mkdir usr/local/pgsql/data root# chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data root# su postgres bash-2.3# initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data bash-2.3# postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data > logfile 2 >&1 & bash-2.3# createdb testdb bash-2.3# psql testdb However, when I login as a normal linux user I cannot create database. So it is a user management problem. zf2linux# createdb mydb FATAL 1: user 'zf2linux' does not exist I have tried to create a user of zf2linux in postgreSQL but the error      

still    

occurs. If I try to change to postgres from zf1linux it asks for password. zf2linux# su postgres password: ****** incorrect password. My pg_hba.conf is left as the default format: local all trust host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust I must miss something before I allow other users to access the postgreSQL server and account. Could you please help me with the problem? Thanks for your attention and will sum. Geoff Dr. Zhiqiang Feng School of Geography & Geosciences Irving Building University of St Andrews St Andrews Fife KY16 9AL tel: 01334 463951 zf2@st-andrews.ac.uk ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly      

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