Re: createuser problem

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Partha Sur <p(dot)sur(at)worldnet(dot)att(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: createuser problem
Date: 2003-09-27 05:12:23
Message-ID: 20030926220956.F41746@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Partha Sur wrote:

> Now try to connect to database "mytest" as user "psur"
>
> -bash-2.05b$ psql -U psur mytest
> psql:FATAL:IDENT authentication failed for user "psur"
> -bash-2.05b$
>
> Perhaps database user "psur" not allowed to attach to database "mytest"
> (which was created under CURRENT_USER = "postgres") ... Is this true ?

It looks like your pg_hba.conf is set to want some form of ident style
authentication from the message. You'd probably need to try logging in to
the psur account from a unix account named psur or changing the
authentication in pg_hba.conf.

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