The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 12260
Logged by: Paul De Audney
Email address: pauld@jobready.com.au
PostgreSQL version: 9.3.5
Operating system: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Description:
I have the following pg_hba entry on a PostgreSQL server (10.A.B.C)
host repmgr all 10.X.Y.Z/32 trust
(the user repmgr was created using "createuser --login --superuser repmgr"
via the postgres system account)
On the host 10.X.Y.Z I am attempting to connect to PgSQL using this
command:
psql -h 10.A.B.C -U repmgr -d mydb
And this requests a password and then fails on a empty password or non-valid
password that I input. I am expecting authentication to work successfully
due to the use of the "trust" auth method.
When I comment out my pg_hba entry
host all all 10.X.Y.Z/24 md5
(this pg_hba entry is after my trust entry, if that matters)
I receive the following client side error:
psql: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "10.A.B.C", user "repmgr",
database "mydb", SSL on
FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "10.A.B.C", user "repmgr", database
"mydb", SSL off
Which to me indicates that the trust entry in the pg_hba is not being parsed
by PostgreSQL at all.
When I set a password on the repmgr role and use that, authentication does
work. Which at the moment I am "working around my insecure intent" by using
a pgpass.