Re: Problem w/ IDENT authentication

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Sometimes life's like that ;-). But actually this does tell something:
> the lack of any additional log message implies that we did get a
> response from the ident server, since ident_inet() will bleat about
> connection failures and so forth. What I conclude is that ident is not
> reporting tomcat4 as the owner of the tomcat process, but something
> else. Perhaps root? How is the tomcat stuff getting launched, anyway?
>

I've recreated this problem with a very simple standalone Java program:

import java.sql.*;
import java.io.*;

public class JdbcTest
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
Connection db = DriverManager.getConnection(args[0], args[1],
args[2]);
db.close();
}
}

When I run it as tomcat4 I get the same IDENT authentication failure, so
it doesn't appear to be a Tomcat issue.

Turning on pidentd logging, it appears that it simply doesn't work for
Java processes. Insert expletive here!

Thanks for your help!

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