Re: [OT?] permissions

Thanks Peter:

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:40:12 +0100 (CET), Peter Eisentraut said:

> > so i try
> >
> > #local ident not avail! right?
> > host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 ident postgres
> >
> > and get this
> > psql: No pg_hba.conf entry for host localhost, user postgres, database postgres
> > even though it says 'all'
>
> I don't know if it's the cause of the message, but 'ident postgres'
> doesn't seem right. The word after ident is not a user name.
>

doh!
ok

those names are just mappings for pg_ident.conf
correct or the special name sameuser

are there any other keywords i should know?

> > one would think there should be an extra option on this of user to connect
> >
> > like
> >
> > local mydb password passwd myuser
> > host mydb 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 password passwd
> > myuser
>
> There is: You only list the users you want to be able to get in in the
> 'passwd' file.
>

ah yes
as soon as i read this i was oh yeah sort of like apache !

Thanks Again