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. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin