Wei Weng <wweng@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have the following lines in my pg_hba.conf file. > host all all 192.168.1.180 255.255.255.1 md5 Not relevant to your immediate problem, but: you almost certainly want 255.255.255.255 as the netmask here. > psql -h 192.168.1.155 -U test_user template1 > Password for user test_user: (I typed test_passwd) > psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "test_user" Did you look in the postmaster log to see if there were any more details? regards, tom lane