On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Matthew Pettis <matthew.pettis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Craig, > > Ok, I changed my pg_hba.conf from the commented line to the following > line to try to open things up for now (I know I will need more > security, but I'm trying to open things up wide to find the problem): > > --- pg_hba.conf -------------------- > # IPv4 local connections: > #host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5 > host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust > ------------------------------------------- > > and made the following change to postgresql.conf (the line was > previously commented out): > --- postgresql.conf ---------------- > listen_addresses = 'localhost' > ------------------------------------------- > > I still am getting the same error from my application (which I believe > is passing on some postgresql error info: > > --- App error ---------------------------------------- > Error reported was 'FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user > "postgres" > '. You need to restart the postgresql service for the listen_addresses to take effect, and either restarting or reloading will make the changes you made in pg_hba.conf take effect.
