Curious log entry

[Net Llama!]

Maybe they were port scanning you, and thought that you had postgres 
running?

Alan Jackson wrote:
> 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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