On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:54 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: ... > Here's the fuller explanation I sent to debian-user: > ------------------------------------------------------ > I am trying to use a GUI to do some work on a local postgres database. > I was using pgaccess a year ago, but recently found it couldn't > connect because of an ident failure. I've tried a bunch of other > tools (pgamdin3, knoda, mergeant, and gnome-db) with mostly the same > problem. > > I have not messed with the default authorization and access settings > for postgres. > > Since I can connect with psql, I developed a theory: the front ends > only connect with tcp, not sockets (I have tried a blank hostname a > few times). > > I needed to do all the following to make things work: > * install a package providing identd (I used midentd) > * Enable the service in /etc/inetd.conf > In this case, I used > auth stream tcp nowait identd /usr/sbin/midentd midentd > > The line in the file by default uses ident as the first field; I don't > know if that matters. (I suspect it doesn't, because with both > present I got an error about duplicate entries). > > The default specifies /usr/sbin/identd, but that wasn't present > (should there be some /etc/alternatives going on so this works?).
I tried several identd packages before I found one that worked (pidentd). Others would fail for no apparent reason; once I found one that worked, I never got to the bottom of why the others didn't. I think midentd was one of the ones that didn't work. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== Do you want to know God? http://www.lfix.co.uk/knowing_god.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
