Re: Ident authentication failed without su to user

From: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: jim_bowery(at)hotmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Ident authentication failed without su to user
Date: 2006-02-17 02:51:24
Message-ID: 871wy2aeab.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org
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jim_bowery(at)hotmail(dot)com writes:

> I've created a database "bugs" and a user "bugs" (postgresql user as
> well as unix) and even made user "bugs" not require a password but I
> still get this:
> [root(at)marathon bugzilla-2.20]# psql bugs bugs
> psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "bugs"

Because 'ident sameuser' means your Unix username has to be the same
as your PG username. Note that 'root' != 'bugs'.

-Doug

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