Re: user and DB confusion - Mailing list pgsql-general

2008/10/13 arnuld uttre <arnuld.mizong@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
>> <gryzman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> what does your pg_hba.conf says ?
>
> # TYPE  DATABASE    USER        IP-ADDRESS        IP-MASK           METHOD
>
> # IPv4-style local connections:
> #host    all         all         127.0.0.1         255.255.255.255   trust
> # IPv6-style local connections:
> #host    all         all         ::1
> ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff        trust
>
> # Using sockets credentials for improved security. Not available everywhere,
> # but works on Linux, *BSD (and probably some others)
>
> local  all    all             ident   sameuser

Most likely phpbb is trying to connect via ipv4 which you don't have
turned on.  Just a guess though.