[GENERAL] Question on MD5 authentication

[Wei Weng]

I am trying to connect to machine A (192.168.1.155) from a different
machine B (192.168.1.180), with password transmitted as a MD5 string.


I have the following lines in my pg_hba.conf file.

host    all     all     192.168.1.180           255.255.255.1    md5

I created a database user "test_user":

create user test_user with password 'test_passwd';

In A's database, I have 

select usename, passwd from pg_shadow;

  usename  |               passwd                
-----------+-------------------------------------
 postgres  | 
 pgbench   | 
 test_user | md5c573460a3b356e4610bfae406e1d8a9f


Then I try to connect to A from B with the following:

psql -h 192.168.1.155 -U test_user template1 
Password for user test_user: (I typed test_passwd)
psql: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "test_user"





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