Re: ident authentication failed for user postgres. - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Andrej Ricnik-Bay
Subject Re: ident authentication failed for user postgres.
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In response to ident authentication failed for user postgres.  (Ramon Orticio <rporticio@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-novice
On 8/10/06, Ramon Orticio <rporticio@yahoo.com> wrote:

>  i tried to edit the pg_hba.conf file and added  host
> all     all      192.168.9.0.0/24  md5 under IPv4
The subject line is speaking of ident authentication, but
in pg_hba.conf you're using md5?

Also, for ident authentication to work you MUST be connecting
to postgres as the same OS user;

Cheers,
Andrej


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