You could always symlink the debian config files to your correct ones. Andy
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ow Sent: Monday, 06 March, 2006 3:46 PM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] [SOLVED] pg_hba.conf + all + trust = Ident authentication failed --- Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure you're using the configuration below (ie, you're editing the I was sure... :-) > correct file and have at least used sighup after the change)? It sure > looks like the server thinks the method is ident which would be the > default for the debian packages I think. > But now I looked and, yes, in debian, the server uses config files from /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/, where it has "ident sameuser" and I was editing the files in /var/lib/postgresql/8.1/main/, my data directory. Now it works. Thanks to everyone who responded. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster !DSPAM:14,440c595e49411415720386! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
