Re: pgAccess via ssh?

Ron St-Pierre wrote:
 > You don't need to putty into the box to use pgAdmin, you just tell
 > pgAdmin the ip address, user (postgres),
 > and password (unless it's trusted). This works as long as you've allowed
 > access from your remote ip address
 > eg in /data/pg_hba.conf you might have something like this
 > host    all         all         24.233.244.45    255.255.255.255   trust
 > this line trusts all users connecting from 24.233.244.45, so for example
 > pgAdmin could gain db access.
 >
 > > No Cygwin necessary for this situation?
 > >
 > No cygwin needed.

However, in that case the DB connection will _not_ be
through ssh, so it will be unencrypted and insecure.

From Mike's initial mail I got the impression that he
wanted the connection to the PostgreSQL server to go
through ssh (which is basically a good thing, because
you get ssh's authentication and encryption features).

Best regards
   Oliver

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