# # Example Postgres95 host access control file. # # # This file controls what hosts are allowed to connect to what databases # and specifies some options on how users on a particular host are identified. # # Each line (terminated by a newline character) is a record. A record cannot # be continued across two lines. # # There are 3 kinds of records: # # 1) comment: Starts with #. # # 2) empty: Contains nothing excepting spaces and tabs. # # 3) content: anything else. # # Unless specified otherwise, "record" from here on means a content # record. # # A record consists of tokens separated by spaces or tabs. Spaces and # tabs at the beginning and end of a record are ignored as are extra # spaces and tabs between two tokens. # # The first token in a record is the record type. The interpretation of the # rest of the record depends on the record type. # # Record type "host" # ------------------ # # This record identifies a set of hosts that are permitted to connect to # databases. No hosts are permitted to connect except as specified by a # "host" record. # # Format: # # host DBNAME IP_ADDRESS ADDRESS_MASK USERAUTH [MAP] # # DBNAME is the name of a Postgres database, or "all" to indicate all # databases. # # IP_ADDRESS and ADDRESS_MASK are a standard dotted decimal IP address and # mask to identify a set of hosts. These hosts are allowed to connect to # Database DBNAME. # # USERAUTH is a keyword indicating the method used to authenticate the # user, i.e. to determine that the principal is authorized to connect # under the Postgres username he supplies in his connection parameters. # # ident: Authentication is done by the ident server on the remote # host, via the ident (RFC 1413) protocol. # # trust: No authentication is done. Trust that the user has the # authority to user whatever username he says he does. # Before Postgres Version 6, all authentication was this way. # # MAP is the name of a map that matches an authenticated principal with # a Postgres username. If USERNAME is "trust", this value is ignored and # may be absent. # # In the case of USERAUTH=ident, this is a map name to be found in the # pg_ident.conf file. That table maps from ident usernames to Postgres # usernames. The special map name "sameuser" indicates an implied map # (not found in pg_ident.conf) that maps every ident username to the identical # Postgres username. # # For backwards compatibility, Postgres also accepts pre-Version 2 records, # which look like: # # all 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 # # # TYPE DATABASE IP_ADDRESS MASK USERAUTH MAP host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust # The above allows any user on the local system to connect to any database # under any username. host template1 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 ident sameuser # The above allows any user from any host with IP address 192.168.0.x to # connect to database template1 as the same username that ident on that host # identifies him as (typically his Unix username). #host all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 trust # The above would allow anyone anywhere to connect to any database under # any username. #host all 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 ident omicron # # The above would allow users from 192.168.0.x hosts to connect to any # database, but if e.g. Ident says the user is "bryanh" and he requests to # connect as Postgres user "guest1", the connection is only allowed if # there is an entry for map "omicron" in pg_ident.conf that says "bryanh" is # allowed to connect as "guest1".