Re: Authentication Question - Mailing list pgsql-admin

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
connectionsthen correct?  Also, I did SIGHUP the PostgreSQL server after the configuration changes.  Here's what the
PHPconfig 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" for
testingpurposes, 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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