Re: [GENERAL] User authentication failed

From: Bob VonMoss <rwv(at)idm(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] User authentication failed
Date: 1999-03-23 16:25:42
Message-ID: 36F7C085.881F4666@idm.com
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Jean Lee wrote:

> I'm running postgres-6.4.2 on one machine, and want to access it from
> another, but get the error message
>
> % psql -h vsop rndprojectdb
>
> Connection to database 'rndprojectdb' failed.
> User authentication failed
>
> vsop is remote host
> rndprojectdb is database

I was having a similar problem (same error message) when routing through a
TCPIP port. When I created a password with pg_passwd (something like that),
I was able to route through TCPIP as opposed to unix sockets, which had been
working all along.

--
Bob VonMoss
mailto:bvonmoss(at)bigfoot(dot)com
from Rosemont, IL

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