Re: installing on user account

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "Rodolfo Borges" <rodolfo(dot)borges(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: installing on user account
Date: 2006-08-04 16:10:44
Message-ID: 200608041810.45477.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 17:57 schrieb Rodolfo Borges:
> $psql -U jabberd2 jabberd2
> psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "jabberd2"

You need to read up on configuring the client authentication. If you don't
have root access, ident is probably not a good choice. In particular ...

> I also tried appending a -W argument to that command.
> It asked for the password, I gave the password from the createuser
> command, and the same error ocurred.

... if you expect to use password authentication, you need to change the
client authentication mechanism away from ident and toward passwords.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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