Hi All, I am confused with the 'ident sameuser' authentication. Here's my setup:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ grep -v "^#" <data_dir>/pg_hba.conf local all all ident sameuser host all all 127.0.0.1/32 ident sameuser host all all 10.0.0.0/8 password [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pg_ctl -D <data_dir> reload [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ psql -h 10.10.0.27 -p 6543 -d postgres -U postgres Password for user postgres: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ psql -p 6543 -d postgres -U postgres Welcome to psql 8.1.11, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ psql -h localhost -p 6543 -d postgres -U postgres psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres" As you can see, if I use the machine's interface or unix sockets, it either asks for password or lets me in. But when I use localhost, it correctly uses 127.0.... line for authentication, but does not let me in!!! Is this not supposed to work? Could it be because I might not be having an ident server running on my box? How do I determine if I have an ident server running? Thanks in advance, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] gmail | hotmail | indiatimes | yahoo }.com EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Mail sent from my BlackLaptop device