Does this make sense to anyone familiar with that area of the code.

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> From: "Fernando Carello" <fcarello@srd.it>
> To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
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> > Try adding another host line to the end of the file, and let me know if
> > that fixes it.
> 
> Added:
> 
> host	users 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.255 password
> 
> at the end of pg_hba.conf, but the error is still there.
> 
> Please note that I don't make use of Unix sockets for the connection, 
> I use TCP/IP instead (" -i ").
> 
> I've also commented out the (original) last two lines that allowed 
> restrictless connections from the localhost.
> 
> I'm not very familiar with Postgres internals, but it *seems* to me 
> that the variable "areq" is not getting the right value: it should be 
> "3" ( = AUTH_REQ_PASSWORD) for plain-password authentication, while 
> it gets "13824".
> ----
> Now I'm at home, and I'm playing a little with libpq sources: here 
> I've got Postgres 6.3 (not 6.3.1) and I get a value of areq = 14336 
> (and the same error, of course).
> So I printed out areq value in "fe-connect.c", just after the 
> pqGetInt call: I get areq = "14336d", that is quite strange; of 
> course, shortly after, the call to fe_sendauth fails.
> Then I tried to force areq=3 just before calling fe_sendauth (we are 
> near the middle of fe-connect.c), and it happens that the error 
> becomes:
> 
> FATAL 1: Socket command option.
> 
> Don't know if that helps in some way !  :-)
> 
> Please let me know if I can do something useful (btw, I'm in trouble 
> with that authentication stuff: for now I'm not able to protect my 
> data, so I shutted down the SQL server), and as always thanks to all 
> you people.
> 
> 
> 				Fernando Carello
> 


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Sat, 4 Apr 1998 10:54:04 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: [BUGS] Possible password authentication bug in 6.3.1 (fwd)