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Re: pg_hba.conf confusion

Reinhard Max <max@suse.de>

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From: Reinhard Max <max@suse.de>
To: "David M. Kaplan" <dmkaplan@ucdavis.edu>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-06-18T15:11:40Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
Hi,

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 at 20:47, David M. Kaplan wrote:

> host       all         127.0.0.1     0.0.0.0    ident    sameuser

If you want this entry to match only the loopback device, the mask has
to be 255.255.255.255 instead of 0.0.0.0. A mask of 0.0.0.0 causes
*all* IP addresses to match this line.

cu
	Reinhard