Re: Ident authentication failed without su to user - Mailing list pgsql-general

jim_bowery@hotmail.com writes:

> I've created a database "bugs" and a user "bugs" (postgresql user as
> well as unix) and even made user "bugs" not require a password but I
> still get this:
> [root@marathon bugzilla-2.20]# psql bugs bugs
> psql: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "bugs"

Because 'ident sameuser' means your Unix username has to be the same
as your PG username.  Note that 'root' != 'bugs'.

-Doug