Re: psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user"postgres" - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dan Joo
Subject Re: psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user"postgres"
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Msg-id 4676DF8318F32F4AB7E98BCD9BC90628E86213@agq-ex01.agraquest.int
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In response to Re: psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"  (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user"postgres"  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user"postgres"  (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>)
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Hi Karsten,

The only non-commented lines are:

[root@RH-Dev data]# cat pg_hba.conf | grep -v '^#'

local   all         all                               trust
host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          trust
host    all         all         ::1/128               trust

Dan

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[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Karsten Hilbert
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:51 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for
user"postgres"

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:24:30AM -0700, Dan Joo wrote:

> /home/djoo[8:25am]$ %psql kermit -U postgres
>
> psql: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"

> confused why I can't access.  Is there another file that I need to
alter
> besides the pg_hba.conf file?

That depends on the content of your pg_hba.conf file.

Karsten
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