Re: ident authentication problems postgresql 9.2

On 10/16/2013 8:34 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I've just turned the setting in pg_hba.conf from md5 back to peer and
> reloaded the server so that it now reads as:
>
> local all postgres peer
>
> Attempting to log in fails with the following error on the console:
>
> psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
> Thanks for the suggestion for checking the logs. My apologies for not
> checking that. The logs show:
>
> 2013-10-16 16:21:16 BST template1 LOG: local user with ID <abc> does not exist
> 2013-10-16 16:21:16 BST template1 FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
> However /etc/passwd has
>
> postgres:x:<abc>:<def>:PostgreSQL administrator,,,:/db:/bin/bash
>
> I do not have an ident server running and never have had as far as I
> recall.

# su - postgres
$ psql

does that give the same error?

re ident server, domain sockets ('local') use a different mechanism, not
authd aka identd... authd/identd would only be used if you specified
ident on a HOST connection, something I wouldn't recommend.

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