| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | Alex Perry <alex(dot)perry(at)ieee(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pjfjacks <pjfjacks(at)swbell(dot)net>, "'pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: connect/install problems |
| Date: | 2005-08-26 10:03:06 |
| Message-ID: | 430EE8DA.9030905@pse-consulting.de |
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Alex Perry wrote:
>>an error has occured:
>>
>>Error connecting to the server: FATAL: IDENT authentication
>>occured for user "myusername"
>
>
> That's because PSQL by default uses a unix socket and your previous
> email showed you were using a network socket for PGADMIN. Which is
> fine, except that the latter has to use the IDENT network service
> to figure out who you are. If PSQL is working and PGADMIN is not,
> I would suspect that you don't have a working identd running yet.
>
> Either install one, eg
> apt-get install pidentd
> or tell pgadmin3 to use a unix socket (see list archives under my name).
Unix sockets are not supported in 1.2; will be in 1.4. Edit
postgresql.conf to use md5 instead of ident solves this too.
Regards,
Andreas
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