Thread: pg_hba.conf + all + trust = Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"

PostgreSQL 8.1.0 on i486-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 4.0.3 20051111
(prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-4)


Hi,

Can't get pg_hba.conf with trust to work:
 testusr@test1:~$ psql -U postgres psql: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"

If I do "su postgres" and then "psql -U postgres" then it does work. But I need
testusr to be able to use psql.

Installed "gidentd", rebooted psql but that did not seem to help.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

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$ cat pg_hba.conf
# TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all         all                               trust
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          trust
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all         all         ::1/128               trust


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Oops, wrong group. Sorry.

--- ow <oneway_111@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> PostgreSQL 8.1.0 on i486-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 4.0.3
> 20051111
> (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-4)
> 
> 
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