I installed postgresql on my account, and now it works ok. Thanks again. On 8/4/06, Rodolfo Borges <rodolfo.borges@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 8/4/06, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ... But that's a postgres global setting, not a database-specific setting, right? So, I would need root access to change it. Back from lunch now, I'll proceed with the installation of my own postgres on my $HOME. > > 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. Thanks for the tip. -- Rodolfo Borges
-- Rodolfo Borges
