Thanks, Tom, I'll check to see if it's trying an SSL comnection, but being that I logged into this server, and I know that I don't have an .ssh subdirectory in my home dir, I didn't think an SSL connection would be tried. We'll see. Thanks again, Jay Sent from my iPad > On Nov 14, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > John Scalia <jayknowsunix@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> The only entries are a local connection line with md5 authentication specified and a line for local replication with a trust authentication. Both of these entries do seem to be working properly. > > So the client is trying an SSL connection first (which would be the > default behavior for libpq at least), and that falls through the > hostnossl line and is captured by the md5 line. Hence you get a > password prompt. The client has no way to know that a non-SSL > connection would have gotten a different response. > > You could change the md5 line to hostssl, perhaps. Or configure > the client to try non-SSL first (see sslprefer). > > regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin