Re: psql: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user error - Urgent pls

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
Cc: "Kumar" <sgnerd(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)sg>, "psql" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user error - Urgent pls
Date: 2004-03-19 15:12:11
Message-ID: 24213.1079709131@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> writes:
> El Vie 19 Mar 2004 09:39, Kumar escribi:
>> My pg_hba.conf file looks like below
>>
>> # TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD
>>
>> local all all trust
>> host all all 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 trust
>>
>> I couldnt understand why. Please shed some light

> This is not the default configuration, so I suspect that you changed it.

... and forgot to SIGHUP the postmaster after changing it, so the
original IDENT-based selection is still active. Do "pg_ctl reload"
to get the postmaster to notice changes in its config files.

regards, tom lane

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