[Zope] Re: [Psycopg] Authentication Problem with Postgres

[Andre Schubert]

Hi,

the problems is not DA-dependant, because i had both ZPsycopg and
ZPygres running.
And the problem occurs at the same time on both DA's.
Maybe could it be inside the Zopes TM???

Thanks as

Paul Zwarts schrieb:
> 
> Andre,
> 
> Hmmm... This is a bit over my head. I don't see why zope would be
> sending something different after a restart. I've cross-posted this to
> the zope list because there are some hard-hitters there that will know
> more (if Frederico doesn't get to it first : ))
> 
> You are correct though, the dbase connections should be persistent (at
> least they are for me). Perhaps you have manually coded your ZPsycopgDA
> to do the password encrypting? Because I'm reasonably _sure_ the
> connection string from within the zope management interface is
> cleartext. Perhaps something between Zope, ZPsycopgDA and postgres is
> going wrong.
> 
> Sorry I cant help more,
> Paul Zwarts
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: andre@oratrix.nl [mailto:andre@oratrix.nl] On Behalf Of Andre
> Schubert
> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 11:33 AM
> To: Paul Zwarts
> Cc: psycopg@lists.initd.org
> Subject: Re: [Psycopg] Authentication Problem with Postgres
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Zope and Postgres are running on different machines. Postgres only
> allows crypted session.
> We have traced only crypted passwords.
> I think the problem is that there is a wrong password crypted and then
> sent to postgres, and after a restart the right password is crypted and
> sent to postgres????
> But why does Zope send a password again, i thought the connections of
> Zope where persistent connections???
> How can a track down connection-establishing??
> 
> Thanks as
> 
> Paul Zwarts schrieb:
> >
> > Andre,
> >
> > How is your encryption done? Zope authenticates using cleartext
> locally
> > AFAIK... and then again I could be wrong. But perhaps this is why you
> > have the problem?
> >
> > Postgres (IMHO) should be set to restrict access to only local
> machines.
> > That way encrypted passwords are not necessary because it can only
> come
> > from the machine running zope (same machine if postgres lives there as
> > well)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Paul Zwarts
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: psycopg-admin@lists.initd.org
> > [mailto:psycopg-admin@lists.initd.org] On Behalf Of Andre Schubert
> > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 11:08 AM
> > To: psycopg@lists.initd.org; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [Psycopg] Authentication Problem with Postgres
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > sometimes i have a curios problem with my Zope.
> > Without any errors in any logs Zope could not authenticate himself
> with
> > postgres.
> > The error message is that there is a wrong password.
> > After a restart of Zope everything works fine until the eror occurs
> > again.
> >
> > My sysop has traced the protcols before and after the error.
> > Zope sends some data and then a crypted password with the salt.
> > If the error is occured the password that Zope sends is crypted wrong.
> > After a restart of Zope the password is right crypted.
> >
> > Could anybody help or explain me this problem, it is very important
> for
> > the further use of Zope
> > for our websites.
> >
> > Thanks as
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