[pgpool-general: 3098] Re: pg_md5 issue

Tatsuo Ishii ishii at postgresql.org
Tue Aug 12 00:36:30 JST 2014


> Hi all,
> 
> I was trying to document my procedure for setting up pgpool for my QA
> folks when I stumbled across an issue with pg_md5.
> 
> If I issue: /usr/bin/pg_md5 --md5auth <password> where <password> is
> the user's actual password, pg_md5 writes an entry to the pool_passwd
> file like:
> 
> postgres:md5a004267ea750b79e526724833f42133
> 
> but if I issue the command as /usr/bin/pg_md5 <password> what gets
> spit out to terminal is:
> 
> 953674ba4731447e6a7ddaf32b308679
> 
> Now, I know md5 can have multiple strings evaluate to the same answer,
> but the value written into the pool_passwd file does NOT work,

Are you sure that:

enable_pool_hba = on

in pgpool.conf

and set up pool_hba.conf correctly?

> whereas, if I edit the pool_passwd file and write the second string
> ending in 679 to it, then it does work. I noticed this when I copied
> and pasted the entry into the /etc/pgpool-II/pcp.conf file. Attempting
> to use any pcp_* command fails authentication with the first string,
> but works when the second string is in the file.
> 
> I'm using centO/S 6.5 and V.3.3.3-4 of pgpool if that makes a
> difference, but I'd like to know why it works differently in these
> cases with one being OK to use, and the other failing miserably.
> --
> Jay
> 
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