Re: Authentification failed

Connecting as root may be ill advised (doing stuff as root is a bad
idea unless one HAS to).

All that notwithstanding, you need to setup the correct permissions to
allow the connections you want in pg_hba.conf, usually is
/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf

Terry

Terry Fielder
terry(at)greatgulfhomes(dot)com
Associate Director Software Development and Deployment
Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
Fax: (416) 441-9085

Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> Judith wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody!!
>>
>> I'm trying in SUSE to connect to a postgres db and this is the error:
>>
>> Ident Authentification failed for user <<root>>
>>
>> I'm already created the user with createuser root, but the error
>> persist, I would aprecciate some help, thanks in advanced
>>
> ...or just cheat and get in as the postgres root user:
> psql -U postgres
> Which on SUSE has no password.
>
>