FATAL Authentication

From: Marc Fromm <Marc(dot)Fromm(at)wwu(dot)edu>
To: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: FATAL Authentication
Date: 2008-06-04 20:29:09
Message-ID: B0D7C0A3F35FE144A70312D086CBCA9B0509A42F@ExchMailbox2.univ.dir.wwu.edu
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I am trying to run commands from the shell (without becoming the postgres user first), which work fine on our live server, but on our dev server I receive FATAL authentication errors.

[root(at)dev tmp]$ createdb -U postgres lan_portal
createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"

[root(at)dev tmp]$ psql -U postgres lan_portal < /tmp/lan_portal.bck
psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"

What needs to be configured so I can run the above commands in the shell?

I was able to create the database once I "su" to postgres, using CREATE DATABASE, but I do not know how to restore a database as I do in the shell as listed above.

Thanks

Marc

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