On 05/19/2017 01:57 PM, Micky Hulse wrote:
Wow, so many helpful replies already! Thanks everyone! I'm going to do
my best at answering questions … Starting from the first email reply.
:)
What version of Postgres, OS and how was it installed?
PostgreSQL 9.3.9 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.9.2
20150212 (Red Hat 4.9.2-6), 32-bit
FYI, 9.3 is now up to 9.3.17:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release.html
At some point, once you have gotten a handle on using Postgres, you
should probably update. Read the Release Notes for each of the minor
releases to see what has been fixed.
Installed via yum:
$ sudo yum install postgresql-server postgresql-contrib
I am asking because that will help find where pg_hba.conf is. If you have
found it, can you share it here?
Totally! pg_hba.conf lives here:
/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
The only modifications I made was to change ident to md5 for IPv4 and
IPv6 local connections:
# TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local all all peer
# IPv4 local connections:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
# IPv6 local connections:
host all all ::1/128 md5
# Allow replication connections from localhost, by a user with the
# replication privilege.
#local replication postgres peer
#host replication postgres 127.0.0.1/32 ident
#host replication postgres ::1/128 ident
So when you did this:
"
psql -U otherusername -d database
… I get:
psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "otherusername"
"
you where connecting using local, which is the socket connection.
If you had done:
psql -U otherusername -d database -h localhost
it would have asked for a password(md5 auth method). If otherusername
does not have the LOGIN attribute you would not been able to log in
anyway. For more detailed information see:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-createrole.html
Great, thank you for the clarification!
Thank you for the help Adrian, I really appreciate it!
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