Re: Re:[NOVICE] Couple of PostgreSQL Questions

["Richard Zimmerman" <Richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Well, except ipchains or netfilter?

   I've got ipchains rules setup to reject ANY traffic from eth1 going to
port 5432... It still shows up on my Internal Nmap scan... Anyone willing to
scan me from outside? I don't have my home computer setup for me to remote
into it and do it myself yet.

> Hmmm, does that auth via PAM or a password stored in the engine itself?
I'm
> quesssing itself (at least with 7.0.2) since it doesn't put a file in
/etc/pam.d

   I can't answer that part but when I use the "crypt" it looks at passwords
stored in /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_shadow, pgsql's username/password file.
It's maintained by psql when you add / delete / modify pgsql users. If you
specify "password" then it looks at the Unix user/password pair.

> > 4. the postgresql.conf file is new for version 7.1.0+
>
> Ah ha! Thats a better name than "pg_hba.conf".

   Heh, heh, heh...

   Goose