Ok, so apparently I need to configure LDAP to use a username-based login. Seems
like overkill.
Thanks. Kevin
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Kevin Struckhoff
<kevinstruckh...@yahoo.com>To: richard coleman <rcoleman.ascen...@gmail.com>Cc:
pgadmin-support@lists.postgresql.org
<pgadmin-support@lists.postgresql.org>Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 4:35:27 PM
PDTSubject: Re: Resetting the pgadmin4 web user credentials
Ok some additional background. I'm attempting to run pgadmin4 web from a
CentOS VM hosted on my win 10 laptop. That VM also runs postgres13, so both app
on 1 server. I have pgadmin4 desktop also running on my laptop just fine and I
use the user postgres to login. The 1st pg_hba.conf makes that happen. So it
should work for ALL users on ALL db's on that same IP address. Why doesn't it
then?
I tried to add a user in the web console, but it won't allow me to set a
username, just an email address, password and whether I want an admin or user.
Why is the web version requiring an email address? I couldn't care less about
an email address, I just want to login the same way I do the desktop. There's
no reason the web user shouldn't be the same as the desktop user, at least
that's what my inner-Spock tells me. I'm only confused by the lack of
similarity in the login process. Very frustrating.
Thanks. Kevin
On Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 4:04:01 PM PDT, richard coleman
<rcoleman.ascen...@gmail.com> wrote:
Kevin, I don't think that the pgAdmin user and the database user are
necessarily the same thing (though I could be wrong) [see:
https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/5.4/user_management.html ]. The
pg_hba.conf file defines what users/machines/methods are allowed to connect to
a postgresql server. So for the first line in your example:
host all all my.dbserver.ip.addr/32 trust
this would mean; host == connections made over TCP/IP, the first all == which
databases, the second all == which users, the my.dbserver.ip.addr/32 == means
only allow connections originating from that exact ip address, and trust ==
allow connections without a password or any other form of authentication [see:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/auth-pg-hba-conf.html ]. I am guessing that
you have gotten the pgAdmin users confused with the postgresql database users.
I would imagine that the pgAdmin server would need an entry in the pg_hba.conf
file for whatever machine pgAdmin is running on and I would be amazed if it was
using trust (or no authentication) to connect with. I use pgAdmin exclusively
in desktop mode, so hopefully someone else who's more familiar with server mode
will chime in.
I hope that helps,
rik.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 6:28 PM Kevin Struckhoff <kevinstruckh...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Sorry re-posting with a corrected subject.
Thanks. Kevin
On Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 3:20:39 PM PDT, Kevin Struckhoff
<kevinstruckh...@yahoo.com> wrote:
After getting pgadmin4 installed and configured, I've found out that the user
credentials I specified during the setup don't work very well. I've added the
user to the postgres db using the adduser command. I updated the pg_hba.conf
file with an entry just for the user but I get this error when trying to
connect for the 1st time:
FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host " my.dbserver.ip.addr", user
"p...@p.com", database "postgres", SSL off
psql postgres
postgres-# adduser p@p.compostgres-#\q
pg_hba.conf entries (actual ip number hidden):
host all all my.dbserver.ip.addr/32 trust host
all p...@p.com my.dbserver.ip.addr /32 trust # for
pgadmin4 web
So I would have thought the 1st entry would cover all users. I can't create a
linux user because the user name is invalid:
useradd: invalid user name 'p...@p.com'
So to make it work, I'd just like to set the username/password to the postgres
user. Where can I do that? I don't see a .py or .conf file other than
pg_hba.conf where the user is defined.
Thanks. Kevin
