Re: [courier-users] Re: PostgreSQL/ pg_hba / crypt problem

[Mitch Vincent]

Yes, A is where the trouble is.. Apologies for not being clear.

On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 03:18  PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

Mitch Vincent writes:

Hey guys.. I've been using Courier IMAP and PG or a while, it works wonderfully.. However there is one thing that I have yet to figure out.
In my pg_hba.conf file on my database servers the auth type was set to md5 -- when auth type is set to md5 courier's pgsql auth daemon can't connect to the database (I get "password incorrect for <user>" errors on the database server)... Now get this - I change it to crypt on the database server and it works fine...
The whole password crypt/md5 this should be handled by libpq, and the

There are two completely different things going on here.

A) Courier logging in to postgres.

B) Courier validating userid/passwords stored in the account table on Postgres.

pg_hba.conf has absolutely nothing to do with B), only with A).



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