Re: [postgis-users] setting up or accessing a host

2012-02-16 Thread Bistrais, Bob
-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Ben Madin Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:14 AM To: PostGIS Users Discussion Subject: Re: [postgis-users] setting up or accessing a host Yes - anytime you let anyone else connect to your

Re: [postgis-users] setting up or accessing a host

2012-02-15 Thread Ben Madin
...@postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Ben Madin Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:42 AM To: PostGIS Users Discussion Subject: Re: [postgis-users] setting up or accessing a host Bob, the security is by default tight - but it sounds like you want host based authentication (hba) You

[postgis-users] setting up or accessing a host

2012-02-14 Thread Bistrais, Bob
So at this point I figured out how to get a PostGIS layer to display through MapServer, but that is only where host=localhost. Now I'm trying to figure out how to access the data from other machines. I'm looking through the documentation but haven't found out how yet. Can anyone point me in the

Re: [postgis-users] setting up or accessing a host

2012-02-14 Thread Ben Madin
Bob, the security is by default tight - but it sounds like you want host based authentication (hba) You will need to read this page a few times : http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/auth-pg-hba-conf.html and then before you do anything else edit your postgresql.conf file (about 60

Re: [postgis-users] setting up or accessing a host

2012-02-14 Thread Bistrais, Bob
...@postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Ben Madin Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:42 AM To: PostGIS Users Discussion Subject: Re: [postgis-users] setting up or accessing a host Bob, the security is by default tight - but it sounds like you want host