Re: Help with privilege or pg_hba.conf

Hello!

"Arcadius A." <ahouans@sh.cvut.cz> wrote in message
news:bfcd9k$bk6$1@main.gmane.org...
> Hello!
> I have a Unix box running PostgreSQL 7.3.3.
>
> So far, I have been the only one user of the DB server...and I didn't have
> any problem using it with the JDBC driver.
>
> Now, a friend of mine wants to use the DB too for doing web stuffs(PHP,
> JSP).... so I need to create a new user on PostgreSQL. this has been done
> easily.
> Now, I don't want the new user (his username is "cool",and he has a
> password ) to access other DBs on my server... I want him to access ONLY a
> database named "cool" that he owns
> (as user "cool", I have created the DB "cool"... and I want  user "cool"
to
> access ONLY  DB "cool" and do any operation on it).
>
> How can this be done?
>
> I've been trying to modify "pg_hba.conf" but with no luck .... as user
> "cool", after I connect to the DB server via psql and I do "\c anotherdb",
> user "cool" can still connect to "anotherdb".
> my "pg_hba.conf" can be found at http://ahouans.sh.cvut.cz/pg_hba.txt
>
> Thanks in advance.

As suggested by Richard and Andrew , I have placed
"local all cool reject"
and
"host all cool  0.0.0.0    0.0.0.0  reject"
before any line having user = 'all'

and now,
<psql>
cool=> \c mytestdb
FATAL:  No pg_hba.conf entry for host localhost, user cool, database
mytestdb
Previous connection kept
cool=>
</psql>

Now, it seems to be working like I wanted.

So again, thanks so much to both of you for the help!

Arcadius Ahouansou.