Curious log entry

Alan Jackson ajackson
Mon May 17 11:34:05 PDT 2004


No. And I don't know who charter-ne.com is. That's what concerns me.

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 08:43:42 -0700
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> Are you running postgresql?  postgres has several different auth 
> mechanisms, most of which requiring user/pass.  Look in postgres.conf 
> and pg_hba.conf.
> 
> Alan Jackson wrote:
> > I got several of these in my logfile yesterday - is this innocent
> > or is it something I should pursue?
> > 
> > Jun 28 11:18:22 earthman login[13633]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM 178-64-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com FOR postgres, Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
> > Jun 28 11:18:27 earthman login[13633]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM 178-64-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com FOR postgres, Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
> > Jun 28 11:23:07 earthman login[13673]: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM 178-64-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com FOR (null), Error in service module
> > 
> 
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