Re: installing on user account

I installed postgresql on my account, and now it works ok.
Thanks again.

On 8/4/06, Rodolfo Borges <rodolfo(dot)borges(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 8/4/06, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> > 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 ...
>
> But that's a postgres global setting, not a database-specific setting, right?
> So, I would need root access to change it.
>
> Back from lunch now, I'll proceed with the installation of my own
> postgres on my $HOME.
>
> > > 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.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
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> Rodolfo Borges
>

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