Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed problem in Ubuntu

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-04-11, at 2:50 AM, Tonatiuh de San Julián wrote:

> 5º "sudo apt-get install gnumed-server"
> I need a private data-base so I install the server, but he present me
> with a dialogue that I don't know what to do. Something about a mail
> server. I do the accept accept accept process.

Others may comment but I believe this is optional.

I am not sure whether the GNUmed server is presently designed to *want* to be 
able to send mail (either presently, or in the future) or whether this is a 
side-effect of a dependency on which GNUmed depends


> 6º "sudo nano /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf"
> I try to change this file, but I have a problem, it has different
> lines that the ones you presented in your installation guide.
> 
> "add the three lines below, placing them
> 
>    toward the end of the "local" section, meaning after the line "
> local all postgres ident sameuser "
>    but just before the line " local  all  all  ident sameuser "
> "
> In my Ubuntu system this lines are:
> 
> "local   all         postgres                          ident"
> "local   all       all        ident"
> 
> So I need to know what to do here.

I am wondering whether newer versions of Postgres have altered the "default" 
lines that ship in the pg_hba.conf file, I did see in an external list response 
to Karsten that alternative authentication was being considered:

        http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388419

So maybe the wiki applies only to older versions of postgres. My own file does 
not have the "sections" that are referred to in the wiki page!

On Mac (FreeBSD unix), I can access my local db fine with the appended as the 
only active lines in my pg_hba.conf file so my suggestion would be to put the 
three lines

        # allow anyone knowing the proper password to
        # log into our GNUmed databases
        local   samegroup      +gm-logins                    md5
        
above the line

        # TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD

-- Jim

************************************
# Put your actual configuration here
# ----------------------------------
#
# If you want to allow non-local connections, you need to add more
# "host" records. In that case you will also need to make PostgreSQL listen
# on a non-local interface via the listen_addresses configuration parameter,
# or via the -i or -h command line switches.
#


# allow anyone knowing the proper password to
# log into our GNUmed databases
local   samegroup      +gm-logins                    md5

# TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all         all                               md5
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          md5
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all         all         ::1/128               md5