Hi, I recently stumbled over the following problem, recently because the setup worked fine for some years, only that when I changed recently to a new linux distribution (from Suse 10 to the latest Fedora core), things broke. The set-up is as follows: I got a postgres data base running on a linux machine (the data base works ok, it seems, as I can connect to it using the psql ``user interface'' to interact with it). I want to connect, however, via emacs, in particular, I used to use the package pg.el (Version: 0.10, 2002, it seems) for it. Now, part of the proper use of it is establishing the connection with the data base, which is done by: (setq myconnection (pg:connect "data-base-name" "user-name") ) Now: this connection does no longer work, i.e., I'm refused access, giving back the following verdict appended below the end of the article. Does anybody know how to repair that? I'm not sure where the problem lies (as said, the set-up worked with the same version of pg.el and basically the same emacs version before). There seem two possible sources: - either emacs/pg does no longer transmit my name properly (I remember I had problems with encodings some time ago) - or postgres applies tougher access restrictions on the new linux distribution, and therefore rejects me What is strange, however, is that I can access the running data base as "user-name" using the command-line tool psql just fine, without being rejected. Thanks, Martin signal(error ("Backend error: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user \"user-name\"\n")) error("Backend error: %s" "FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user \"msteffen\"\n") byte-code("..... process connection pg:SM_USER pg:SM_OPTIONS pg:SM_UNUSED generate-new-buffer " *PostgreSQL*" nil open-network-stream "postgres" fboundp set-buffer-process-coding-system binary set-buffer-multibyte vector cl-struct-pgcon 1 pg:send-int 4 2 pg:send accept-process-output 0 error "pgcon-process accessing a non-pgcon" pg:read-char 69 "Backend error: %s" pg:read-string 4096 82 pg:read-net-int pg:initialize-parsers pg:exec "SET datestyle = 'ISO'" throw --cl-block-pg:connect-- 5 "Crypt authentication not supported" "Kerberos4 authentication not supported" "Kerberos5 authentication not supported" "Can't do that type of authentication: %s" "Problem connecting: expected an authentication response" pg:SM_TTY user-packet-length host port pg:StartupPacketSize pg:PG_PROTOCOL_63_MAJOR ...] 7)