On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:24:30AM -0700, Dan Joo wrote: > /home/djoo[8:25am]$ %psql kermit -U postgres > > psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres" > confused why I can't access. Is there another file that I need to alter > besides the pg_hba.conf file? That depends on the content of your pg_hba.conf file. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346