[freeside-users] [SPAM-MAIL] Re: Integrated RT Installation Woes

[Muiz Motani]

Actually, trying what I describe below (changing the entry for host to
trust) gets the makefile to work. I realize that using md5 instead of
trust would make it more secure. I am just wondering why my setup is
using TCP/IP sockets instead of UNIX sockets. 

Regards,

Muiz Motani

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 20:07 +0000, Julius Igugu wrote:
> Try this in pg_hba.conf:
> 
> local   all         all                               md5
> host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          md5
> 
> Julius Igugu
> 
> 
> Muiz Motani wrote:
> > Once again, I am replying to my own post. Please excuse my faux-pas. I
> > found that I actually had to change the host entry in pg_hba.conf as
> > follows:
> >
> > [root at vmwareserver freeside-1.7.3]# more /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
> > # PostgreSQL Client Authentication Configuration File
> > # ===================================================
> >
> > { ...lines ommitted ...}
> >
> > # TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD
> >
> > # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
> > #local   all         all                               ident sameuser
> > local   all         all                               trust
> > # IPv4 local connections:
> > #host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          ident sameuser
> > host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          trust
> > # IPv6 local connections:
> > host    all         all         ::1/128               ident sameuser
> >
> > Does this mean that I am actually using a TCP/IP socket to connect to
> > the local host? Should I be using a Unix-domain socket instead, and if
> > so, what do I change in my configuration to make that happen?
> >