Re: ident auth not working on 7.3.1

On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 21:45, Scott Lamb wrote:
> I can't get ident auth to work on 7.3.1. I'm using Linux 2.4 (RedHat 7.3).

> [postgres(at)calvin data]$ egrep '^[^#]' pg_hba.conf
> local all all ident
^^^^^^^^
missing parameter, e.g., sameuser

> [postgres(at)calvin slamb]$ id
> uid=26(postgres) gid=26(postgres) groups=26(postgres)
> [postgres(at)calvin slamb]$ psql template1
> psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
> What could cause this?

You haven't added the map parameter after "ident". Try "ident
sameuser", so that anyone can connect to PostgreSQL using his Unix login
(provided that he has also been created as a PostgreSQL user).

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