Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 17:57 schrieb Rodolfo Borges: > $psql -U jabberd2 jabberd2 > psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "jabberd2" You need to read up on configuring the client authentication. If you don't have root access, ident is probably not a good choice. In particular ... > I also tried appending a -W argument to that command. > It asked for the password, I gave the password from the createuser > command, and the same error ocurred. ... if you expect to use password authentication, you need to change the client authentication mechanism away from ident and toward passwords. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/