Authentication

Hi,

I have some trouble understanding how authentication works (or why it
does not work here to be precise).

I want to code yet another web-based home inventory datebase using
PostgreSQL 7.2.1 and PHP 4.1.2. For that, I want to have two users,
the admin and the web user.

Here is an excerpt from the db creation script:
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create database inventory;
\connect inventory
create user inventuser with encrypted password 'secret';
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Later followed by lots of grants.

Here is an excerpt from pg_hba.conf:
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local inventory md5
host inventory 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 md5
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Here is the connect:
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$connectString = "host=localhost dbname=inventory user=inventuser password=" . md5("secret");
$dbh = pg_connect($connectString);
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(Any other important information? Like, duh, the error message?)
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Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: Password
authentication failed for user "inventuser" in <filename> on line 3
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The same happens with an unencrypted password and AUTH_TYPE
'password'.

This setup works with AUTH_TYPE 'trust'. I read all I thought is
related in the documentation (Admin Guide 4 & 7), but couldn't solve
the problem. What is wrong?

A minor point: I there an easy way to activate case sensitivity for
usernames?

Thorsten
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