Re: local authentication with md5 - solved

[Bernhard D Rohrer <graylion(at)sm-wg(dot)net>]

Bernhard D Rohrer wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have set my authentication to
>
> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
> local   all         all                               md5 #ident sameuser
>
> for security reasons
>
> this leads to this problem when trying to run a script:
>
> 30-Mar 17:47 collab-dir: BeforeJob: run command 
> "/etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup bacula postgres 
> 'md5xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'"
> 30-Mar 17:47 collab-dir: BeforeJob: pg_dump: [archiver (db)] 
> connection to database "bacula" failed: FATAL: Ident authentication 
> failed for user "postgres"
>
> how does one pass an md5 encrypted pw to postgres? I tried it with 
> clear as well, but that failed too. Not happy doing that anyway.
>
> many thanks in advance
>
> Bernhard
sorted, thanks!

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