PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook

How to do it…

By default, PostgreSQL gives access to clients who connect using Unix sockets, provided that the database user is the same as the system's username. Here, we'll show you how to enable other connections.

In this recipe, we mention configuration files, which can be located as shown in the Finding the current configuration settings recipe in Chapter 3, Configuration.

The steps are as follows:

1. Add or edit this line in your postgresql.conf file:

listen_addresses = '*'

2. Add the following line as the first line of pg_hba.conf to allow access to all databases for all users with an encrypted password:

# TYPE   DATABASE   USER        CIDR-ADDRESS   METHOD host      all        all          0.0.0.0/0       md5

3. After changing listen_addresses, we restart the PostgreSQL server, ...