RE: pg_hba.conf question

I have tried entering the following as suggested: -
local all reject
host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 ident
sameuser

I have also tried
local all reject
host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 trust

After trying the usual command %psql dbname to connect I keep getting the
message
No pg_hba.conf entry for host localhost, user postgres, database dbname

Is there something obvious I am missing????

Thanks

Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: 29 January 2001 15:08
To: Graham Vickrage
Cc: Postgres Admin
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf question

"Graham Vickrage" <graham(at)digitalplanit(dot)com> writes:
> I noticed that you can't use the 'ident sameuser' with local unix sockets,
> what is the method of getting round this as I cant use trust for this
> database?

ident only works with TCP sockets. You could require people to connect
to host localhost, ie, use a local TCP connection instead of a Unix
socket. Set up 127.0.0.1 as ident sameuser and socket connections as
reject in pg_hba.conf.

regards, tom lane