Re: psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user"postgres"

Hi Karsten,

The only non-commented lines are:

[root(at)RH-Dev data]# cat pg_hba.conf | grep -v '^#'

local all all trust
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
host all all ::1/128 trust

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Karsten Hilbert
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:51 AM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for
user"postgres"

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:24:30AM -0700, Dan Joo wrote:

> /home/djoo[8:25am]$ %psql kermit -U postgres
>
> psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"

> confused why I can't access. Is there another file that I need to
alter
> besides the pg_hba.conf file?

That depends on the content of your pg_hba.conf file.

Karsten
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