Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2023-11-21 at 23:27 +0000, Johnson, Bruce E - (bjohnson) wrote: >> DBI connect('dbname=webdata;host=dhbpostgres.pharmacy.arizona.edu;port=5432','trav',...) failed: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "trav" >> FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "150.135.124.50", user "trav", database "webdata", no encryption at ./pg_test.pl line 8. >> >> The pg_hba.conf on the server includes this which should encompass all systems in this VLAN >> # external 'OldMTM' site range >> hostssl all all 150.135.124.0/25 password > "no encryption" does not match a "hostssl" entry. Yeah. What is probably happening here is that (with the default sslmode) libpq is trying an SSL connection, that's failing for some reason, and then it tries a non-SSL connection which definitely fails for lack of a matching pg_hba.conf entry; and then for some other reason you are only shown the message concerning the last attempt. Theory B is that your libpq wasn't compiled with SSL support so it skips right to the non-SSL attempt. Laurenz's suggestion of adding sslmode=require is a good debugging step either way, since it will either tell you for sure that you are missing SSL support or show you the failure from the single SSL-enabled attempt. Alternatively, turn on log_connections and see what the server log captures. (You might need to do that anyway if the client-side message isn't sufficiently informative.) regards, tom lane