On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 15:38 -0400, Wei Weng wrote:
> 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"

D'oh, accidentally sent this email out without properly finishing it.

So my question is, how can I connect to A from B with a proper MD5-ed
authentication?

Thanks!

Wei



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