phpPgAdmin problem

a couple of questions,

which version of apache are you using?
which browser are you using?
are any error messages reported back on the screen?
what error message is produced in your postgres log files?

also you might want to grab an update from the cvs if possible.

Robert Treat
phpPgAdmin team

Hello

I am using apache-1.3.23
the browsers are Konqueror 3.0.0 and Mozilla 1 RC3

the logfile seems to be empty or I checked the wrong one.
I am new to postgresql. I will check my book

I get a login screen prompting for username and password
I entered postgres and the linux postword for postgres
but that didn't work

I thought that I shouldn't get a login screen at all.

markus

Robert Treat wrote:

Hello

I am using apache-1.3.23
the browsers are Konqueror 3.0.0 and Mozilla 1 RC3

the logfile seems to be empty or I checked the wrong one.
I am new to postgresql. I will check my book

I get a login screen prompting for username and password
I entered postgres and the linux postword for postgres
but that didn't work

I thought that I shouldn't get a login screen at all.

markus

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 19:54, Robert Treat wrote:

a couple of questions,

which version of apache are you using?
which browser are you using?
are any error messages reported back on the screen?
what error message is produced in your postgres log files?

also you might want to grab an update from the cvs if possible.

Robert Treat
phpPgAdmin team

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 16:33, Markus Jais wrote:

hello

I have a problem with phpPgAdmin_2-4-2

my config file looks like this:

$cfgServers[1]['local'] = true;
$cfgServers[1]['host'] = 'localhost';
$cfgServers[1]['port'] = '5432';
$cfgServers[1]['adv_auth'] = true;

$cfgServers[1]['user'] = ''; // if you are not using adv_auth, e
nter the username to connect all the time
$cfgServers[1]['password'] = ''; // if you are not using adv_auth
and a password is required enter a password
$cfgServers[1]['only_db'] = ''; // if set to a db-name, only this
db is accessible

they say that I should not enter a username if I use adv_auth
but I can not connect. even when I enter a username and a password
nothing happens

what I am doing wrong ??
I have
postgresql-7.2.1
php 4.2.1
RedHat 7.3
phpPgAdmin_2-4-2

markus

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Advanced authentication means you will be prompted for a user name and
password by phppgadmin. You would then enter a standard
username/password combination like with psql or any other app, however
you need to make sure that your pg_hba.conf file is configured correctly
to allow that user to login. (this is how the configuation information
is set below)

if you don't use advance authentication, you will need to supply a user
name and password that you will always use to connect with. In this case
you will not be prompted by phpPgAdmin for login information, but you
still need to make sure your pg_hba.conf is configured properly to allow
that user to log in.

in either case, your database should be producing a connection error
message that is hopefully being written to a log file somewhere, this
will help you figure out why it wont let you authenticate.

Robert Treat
phpPgAdmin team

Hi,

On 29 Jul 2002, Markus Jais wrote:

I get a login screen prompting for username and password
I entered postgres and the linux postword for postgres
but that didn't work

Well, you must use the password that you assigned to "postgres" user using
pg_passwd.

In etc/shadow, you could have an entry as below:

postgres:!!:11723:0:99999:7:::

This means that, postgres user will NOT accept ANY password. IMHO, maybe
this is a better security issue than assigning a passwd to postgres user.
You could disable the password by using passwd command with -l parameter.
This option is used to lock the specified account and it is available to
root only.

I thought that I shouldn't get a login screen at all.

If so, anyone could access you db :)

Regards and best wished.

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