Does your pg_ident.conf contain anything with reference to testusr? As it seems to be trying Ident authentication over everything else and failing. Andy -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ow Sent: Monday, 06 March, 2006 1:02 PM To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf + all + trust = Ident authentication failed for user "postgres" PostgreSQL 8.1.0 on i486-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 4.0.3 20051111 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-4) Hi, Can't get pg_hba.conf with trust to work: testusr@test1:~$ psql -U postgres psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres" If I do "su postgres" and then "psql -U postgres" then it does work. But I need testusr to be able to use psql. Installed "gidentd", rebooted psql but that did not seem to help. Any ideas? Thanks in advance -------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ cat pg_hba.conf # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only local all all trust # IPv4 local connections: host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust # IPv6 local connections: host all all ::1/128 trust -------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match !DSPAM:14,440c330a49416961194852!
