Re: Authentification failed

On 8/1/07, Judith <jaltamirano(at)correolux(dot)com(dot)mx> wrote:
> Hello everybody!!
>
> I'm trying in SUSE to connect to a postgres db and this is the error:
>
> Ident Authentification failed for user <<root>>
>
> I'm already created the user with createuser root, but the error
> persist, I would aprecciate some help, thanks in advanced

you need to change auth methods in your pg_hba.conf file:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/auth-pg-hba-conf.html

basically identd means that you are who you are on the unix box. no
-U flag, you can't log in as someone else.

note that a "root" user is a bit of a mysqlism. The postgres user is
the equivalent in postgresql. might you sudo su - postgres and try to
connect?