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Re: How to setup PostgreSQL to work with libpam-pgsql/libnss-pgsql2?

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On 25/08/2010 3:02 AM, PMC OS wrote:
I am new to Linux

[snip]

Now I like to switch with the authentification to libpam-pgsql/libnss-pgsql2

Honestly, in most cases you'll be much better off managing authentication with LDAP. It's a better design for the nature of authentication and user data management, where it has to handle lots of small read queries and only very rare writes. It also has better replication.

Even if you're not using Samba, the smbldap-tools provide handy commands to manage users in the LDAP directory, and the debian ldap-auth-client package provides a convenient way to configure a client to authenticate against the directory.

Initial setup takes a little learning, but is well worth it.

If you later find that you need to store user data in a relational database for some reason, you can even configure slapd to use the database as a backend, so you're using PostgreSQL behind the scenes but your clients still talk LDAP. I've never found the need, though; I run the network at the business I'm sysadmin at with pure LDAP authentication (slapd, berkely db backend) quite happily.

to use the PostgreSQL database and now I was XXXX!  nothing is working anymore.  I can not even connect to the PostgreSQL server.

Even via "psql -h 192.168.0.3" ?

Can you ping it?

If you run "ps aux | grep postgres" on the server, are there any postgresql processes running?

If you run "psql" on the server, can it connect? If not, what's the error message?

If you look at /var/log/postgresql on the server, what are the last few lines in the logs?

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Craig Ringer

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