--- Stephan Szabo <sszabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are you sure you're using the configuration below (ie, you're editing the I was sure... :-) > correct file and have at least used sighup after the change)? It sure > looks like the server thinks the method is ident which would be the > default for the debian packages I think. > But now I looked and, yes, in debian, the server uses config files from /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/, where it has "ident sameuser" and I was editing the files in /var/lib/postgresql/8.1/main/, my data directory. Now it works. Thanks to everyone who responded. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com