Re: FastCgi / PostgreSQL: FATAL: Ident authentication failed

[Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx>]

binberati wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a strange problem running Django on a GrokThis.net shared
> hosting account:
>
> Environment:
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Apache/2.0.59 (Unix)
> mod_fastcgi/2.4.2
> PostgreSQL 8.1.3
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> settings.py:
> ------------------------------------------------------
> DATABASE_ENGINE = 'postgresql'
> DATABASE_USER = 'user_name'
> DATABASE_PASSWORD = '***'
> ------------------------------------------------------
> or
> ------------------------------------------------------
> DATABASE_ENGINE = 'postgresql_psycopg2'
> DATABASE_USER = 'user_name'
> DATABASE_PASSWORD = '***'
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Django on FastCgi renders this error:
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/shared/user_name/django_src/django/template/__init__.py" in
> render_node
>   706. result = node.render(context)
> File "/home/shared/user_name/django_src/django/template/__init__.py" in
> render
>   757. return self.encode_output(output) File
> "/home/shared/user_name/django_src/django/template/__init__.py" in
> encode_output
>   739. return str(output)
> File "/home/shared/user_name/django_src/django/db/models/query.py" in
> __repr__
>   97. return repr(self._get_data())
> File "/home/shared/user_name/django_src/django/db/models/query.py" in
> _get_data
>   430. self._result_cache = list(self.iterator()) File
> "/home/shared/user_name/django_src/django/db/models/query.py" in
> iterator
>   170. cursor = connection.cursor()
> File
> "/home/shared/user_name/django_src/django/db/backends/postgresql/base.py"
> in cursor
>   43. self.connection = Database.connect(conn_string)
>
>   OperationalError at /
>   FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "user_name"
> ------------------------------------------------------

'ident' means the username the service is running as has to be the same 
as the database username (read 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/auth-methods.html#AUTH-IDENT).

So service is running as user "X" - the database user has to be "X" as well.

That's the first thing to check.

Second - can you connect to postgres from a shell command line?

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