Re: postgres not accessible in Mandrake 9.0

From: "Shridhar Daithankar<shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>" <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgres not accessible in Mandrake 9.0
Date: 2003-02-15 06:34:35
Message-ID: 200302151204.35577.shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in
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On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 7:51 pm, you wrote:
> I have trouble connecting to the postgres server in Mandrake 9.0.
>
> The server is started by default on boot and when I try to access a
> database created as "postgres user" within anouther user (e.g. "koegli")
> account, I get the error:
>
> FATAL ERROR: user koegli does not exist.

as OS user postgres, do createuser koegli.

Postgresql users are different than OS users. Other solution is to ask
postgres to auhtneitcate against ident server. See pg_hba.conf and admin
manual for more details.

Shridhar

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