Re: Getting "ident" to work in Windows

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On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:33 PM, ktm@xxxxxxxx <ktm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 01:57:47PM +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to enable "ident" authentication on my Windows machine using PostgreSQL 9.1
>>
>> However as soon as I add the following line to pg_hba.conf
>>
>>    host    all             all             ::1/128            ident sameuser
>>
>> I get an error message when trying to login (after a server reload of course)
>>
>>    psql: FATAL:  could not load pg_hba.conf
>>
>> It is precisely that line above. As soon as I remove it I can logon again (with a username/password of course).
>>
>> I did verify that my connections are done through IPV6.
>>
>> Here is the current content of my pg_hba.conf:
>>
>> --------- snip ----------
>> # TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD
>>
>> # IPv4 local connections:
>> host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5
>>
>> # IPv6 local connections:
>> host    all             all             ::1/128              md5
>> --------- snip ----------
>>
>> Ideally I would like to make "ident" to work with a custom map but using "ident tkmap". But that throws the same error which isn't really surprising as "ident tkmap" is not working either.
>>
>> Is ident not supported on Windows? I could not find anything related to that in the manual.
>>
>> Regards
>> Thomas
>>
>
> I believe that that is the case. There is no Windows ident support.

There should be ident support for Windows. Just not over local
connections ("peer") - since local connections are not supported.

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