Re: psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "jira"

Hello Tom!

Thanks for the answer. I solve my problem already. My mistake is a wrong
permissions in Unix system. Someone change owner from postgres to jira. Now
all work fine.

Grigory

2007/11/27, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>
> "=?KOI8-R?B?59LJx8/Sycog7snLz87P0s/X?=" <grigory(dot)nikonorov(at)gmail(dot)com>
> writes:
> > I try to start JIRA with PostgreSQL 8.2.5 and have an error - psql:
> FATAL:
> > Ident authentication failed for user "jira" when i check JIRA log files.
> > Then i try command psql -U jira -d jiradb -h localhost and i got the
> same
> > error !
>
> > Pleasee see my pg_hba.conf
>
> > # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
> > local all all password
> > # IPv4 local connections:
> > host all all 0.0.0.0/0 trust
> > host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
> > # IPv6 local connections:
> > host all all ::1/128 trust
>
> Well, that error message is entirely impossible given that pg_hba.conf,
> because you don't have ident auth selected anywhere. So I conclude that
> either (1) you're looking at the wrong pg_hba.conf file, or (2) you
> changed the file but forgot to SIGHUP the postmaster (pg_ctl reload)
> afterwards.
>
> BTW, your pg_hba.conf seems a bit silly --- why try to enforce passwords
> on Unix-socket connections when the door is wide open on local TCP
> connections? Also, do you realize that "0.0.0.0/0 trust" is in fact
> allowing trust access to the entire IPv4 Internet?
>
> regards, tom lane
>