On 2005-03-12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I'm new to both PostgreSQL and psycopg and I'm trying to connect > to my database running on localhost. I have postgres setup to do md5 > authentication and this works when using a db admin tool on my local > network. For some reason, psycopg fails with IDENT authentication. > >>>> import psycopg >>>> psycopg.connect("dbname=jlowery user=jlowery host=localhost > password=XXX") > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > psycopg.OperationalError: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for > user "jlowery" > > Is there a way to make this module connect with MD5 auth? >
Are you sure you do not have local connections set up for md5 and host authentications still set to ident? Did you restart the server after updating pg_hba.conf? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list