Re: ident authentication not working over loopback adapter

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Check to see if ident traffic is being filtered by kernel-level packet
> filtering.  IIRC, RHL ships with mighty tight packet filtering, even on
> the loopback connection (which is a tad silly, but...).  One easy way to
> investigate this is to see if you can telnet to the ident daemon:
>

Actually, it seems that Red Hat doesn't filter the loopback adapter.
(In fact, it seems that connections to local interfaces don't get
filtered either, but remote connections to the same interfaces do get
filtered.)

I have tracked the problem down to the following line in
/etc/identd.conf:

     result:encrypt = yes

Changing this to 'no' makes things work as expected, so PostgreSQL
obviously couldn't understand the encrypted response.

Anyone have any idea if this is a problem with PostgreSQL, a problem
with the ident daemon, or just "broken as designed"?

Thanks!

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Ian Pilcher                                           pilchman@attbi.com
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