"Michael J. Robinson" <robinson@xxxxxxxx> writes: > When I try to login I get the following error: > [root@host postgressql]# psql template1 -U foo --password > Password: > psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "foo" The prompt tells the tale: you aren't "foo", you are "root". IDENT wants those things to be the same. The password you forced psql to ask you for is totally irrelevant. Probably your best bet is to "su" from root to postgres and then create your initial users as postgres. You can create root as a postgres superuser if you would prefer to do this sort of maintenance from the root account in future. (Whether that's a good idea is another question --- in general, using root for more than you absolutely must isn't good practice IMHO.) You could also think about changing to some other auth method besides IDENT, if you would prefer to operate with Postgres passwords instead of who-are-you-to-the-kernel. regards, tom lane
