Hi, I'm trying to set up my DB to authenticate against a PAM back-end (in this case just a plain old local password DB). Here's my configuration as it currently stands: positionwhile[pg]% grep pam /var/lib/pgsql/metadata/pg_hba.conf # "krb4", "krb5", "ident", or "pam". Note that "password" sends passwords local authtest all pam postgresql positionwhile[pg]% more /etc/pam.d/postgresql #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth The system is a CentOS 4.4 box, and I'm running PostgreSQL 8.0.6. When I test the core pam functionality using pamtester, I get the following: positionwhile[pamtester-0.1.2]% src/pamtester -v postgresql mporwit authenticatepamtester: invoking pam_start(postgresql, mporwit, ...) pamtester: performing operation - authenticate Password: pamtester: successfully authenticated Looks like a success to me. However, when I try to get psql to do password authentication, I get the following: positionwhile[postgresql-8.0.13]% psql authtest Password: psql: FATAL: PAM authentication failed for user "mporwit" And this shows up in my logs: LOG: connection received: host=[local] port= DEBUG: forked new backend, pid=1430 socket=11 DEBUG: received password packet LOG: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure FATAL: PAM authentication failed for user "mporwit" DEBUG: proc_exit(0) DEBUG: shmem_exit(0) DEBUG: exit(0) DEBUG: reaping dead processes DEBUG: server process (PID 1430) exited with exit code 0 Any insight here would be appreciated. Are there any other tweaks I may have missed? Thanks, Marcin mporwit [AT] yahoo-inc [DOT] com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate