Re: step 2..

Tom Allison wrote:
> psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "foo"
>
> pg_hba.conf?
>
> I have entries like:
>
> local all postgres ident sameuser
> local all all ident sameuser
> host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 ident sameuser
> host all all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 reject

Mine looks like this:

#TYPE DBASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD
#---- ----- ---- ---------- ------- ------
local all all trust
host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
host fishdb simon 192.168.130.0 255.255.255.0 md5
host treedb janet 192.168.130.0 255.255.255.0 md5
host tigerdb marion 192.168.130.0 255.255.255.0 md5
... etc.

> I have the exact same user and password set in my login user files as
> what I created using the sql script above.

What do you mean by "login user files"? Database user are
not the same as login users. In fact, they _should_ not be
the same.

> I'm still getting the IDENT error.
> suggestions?

Not using "ident" authentication? It's insecure anyway.

Regards
Oliver

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