Marina Olhovsky <olhovsky@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to assign a password for a postgres user. I've logged in as > postgres, issued "alter user my_user with password 'my_passwd'". Doing "select > * from pg_users" shows the new user with password assigned. However, when I > try to start psql as the new user: "psql -U my_user -W" and enter my_passwd as > password, I get "Ident authentication failed" error. Could someone please help Ident authentication means, that the actual user can identified with the ident-service. I think, you should read more about authentification, for instance there: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/client-authentication.html Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknow) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°
