Hi John, On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 1:20 PM, John Foelster <johnfoels...@comcast.net>wrote:
> I’m migrating some moderately sized DBs from Access to Postgres because I > can’t deal with Access’ performance issues and ANSI SQL noncompliance.**** > > ** ** > > I hit a snag at a rather unexpected place. Before we get started I should > state that I’m using PGAdmin 1.16.1 on a Windows 8 64 bit machine. I’m > aware that this last bit shows appalling judgment. The server is on the > same machine and is running PostGres 9.2, whichever flavor was stable circa > 1/31/13 according to the installation date.**** > > ** ** > > Now I need to make this into a secured web server using my own machine as > the server. This entailed making some nice little logins for the purpose > of providing that access. I used the PGAdmin UI and set the passwords for > the new logins via the role creation UI. I was fairly sure that I had set > them to a nice high quality password, let’s pretend it was > “CorrectHorseBatteryStaple”. I tried using the logins via psqlODBC to > shepherd the data from Access via SQLExpress and got a password failure. > Needing to keep things moving, I switched to the postgres default login for > the data transfer. Thinking that I must have just got the password wrong I > tried correcting it through the UI. So then I tried setting the master > password through the UI. Ooops. I was able to regain access by setting > the pg_hba.conf to trust all connections, but even when I used the ALTER > ROLE SQL statement, I still could not reset the password.**** > > It seem, you are importing/exporting the data from SQL Server's SQLExpress dump module. Could you double check that you are using the new created logins for the psqlODBC connection. In windows, i believe we have "Test Connection" option while creating the ODBC connection. Is your "Test Connection" got successful. > I think I must be missing something fundamental, and I suspect it has to > do with MD5 encryption, but I’m at a loss as to what.**** > > ** ** > > Any idea how to set up security properly for someone who openly admits to > being more analyst than DBA? > You can try with other password authentication methods like , "password", "sspi", e.t.c. Please try this <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auth-methods.html>link for more authentications. Dinesh -- *Dinesh Kumar* Software Engineer Ph: +918087463317 Skype ID: dinesh.kumar432 www.enterprisedb.co <http://www.enterprisedb.com/>m<http://www.enterprisedb.com/> * Follow us on Twitter* @EnterpriseDB Visit EnterpriseDB for tutorials, webinars, whitepapers<http://www.enterprisedb.com/resources-community> and more <http://www.enterprisedb.com/resources-community>
