Re: Application trying to use wrong user when logging into the database

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On Monday, March 29th, 2021 at 10:47, hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 01:44:59PM +0000, Simon Connah wrote:
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> > https://github.com/vitaly-t/pg-promise/wiki/Connection-Syntax#configuration-object
> >

> > and have all the right data supplied. But instead of using my
> >

> > applications role which I created in PostgreSQL it is trying to use my
> >

> > Linux user name "simon" and is failing authentication because of it.
> >

> > I'm just confused at the moment. At no point in time have I created
> >

> > a role called "simon" and I have never tried to connect to any of my
> >

> > databases using the role name "simon", so why is it trying to
> >

> > authenticate as "simon"?
>

> Pg will try to connect as db user simon if you don't provide username to
>

> log in as.
>

> For example, if I'm logged in shell as depesz, and will try: psql -d xx,
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> it will try to login to db xx as user depesz.
>

> To login as user "magic", I have to provide it expliticly: psql -U magic
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> -d xx.
>

> Please show us your connection code from your app.
>

> Best regards,
>

> depesz

Thank you for your reply. I fixed it. It was a silly mistake on my end where I was not importing the environment variables for database connection information correctly.

Simon.