Re: How to troubleshoot authentication failure? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: How to troubleshoot authentication failure?
Date
Msg-id 20091007151721.GH7719@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to How to troubleshoot authentication failure?  (Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com>)
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Kynn Jones escribió:
> I have two Linux servers that are pretty similar to each other, and both are
> running PostgreSQL servers, but in one server a certain Perl script succeeds
> in connecting to the localhost server whereas in the other one the same
> script fails.  The error on the second server is of the form "fe_sendauth:
> no password supplied".
> I have verified all the possible reasons that I can think of for why this
> script succeeds on one server but fails on the other.  In all these respects
> the two set ups are absolutely identical: same pg_hba.conf files, same
> script parameters, same versions of Postgres, same everything.

Maybe you have a .pgpass file storing a password for one of them and not
the other?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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