Re: [SL] problem: postgres IDENT

[Dieter S. <dsi...@sq...>]

change password protection from IDENT to PASSWORD in pg_hba.conf.

If you don't use a password set to TRUST.


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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Keld J=F8rn Simonsen wrote:

> When I try to create a new database, or connect to an
> existing one I get the follwing error message:
> FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres"
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> I can see the dbs when running psql as postgres.
> Could it be a firewall problem, or networking problem
> or some passwd problem?
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> This is just after moving from postgres 7.1 to 7.2=20
> under Mandrake 8.2 and loading the databases.
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> keld
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