Re: pg_connect troubles on localhost

Hmmm, I have no idea what the Apache daemon user is(root?) but not sure
how to check. So what would be the workaround ? Should I setup users
as different from OS user names ?

Tom Lane wrote:
> John Taber <jtaber(at)johntaber(dot)net> writes:
>
>># TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
>># "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
>>local all all ident sameuser
>
>
> "ident sameuser" means you can only connect as the PG user with the same
> name as the operating system account that's running the program you try
> to connect from. (In the case of a PHP program that's probably going to
> be the Apache daemon user.) Passwords are not relevant for ident auth.
>
> regards, tom lane
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