[Dbconfig-common-devel] Status of "editing pg_hba.conf"

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:00:02AM +0100, sean finney wrote:

> > > i guess what i fail to see here is why you can't just connect as the
> > > gnumed user using md5 authentication over the loopback interface?
> > 
> > Because this is the relevant default line:
> > 
> > local   all         all                               ident sameuser
> 
> postgres 8.1 in sid/etch also contains this line:
> 
> # IPv4 local connections:
> host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          md5

Note how this doesn't use the loopback device. It rather
establishes a local TCP/IP connection.

Which is technically no problem for the GNUmed installer,
though, so, yes, that would also work.

Karsten
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