-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 March 2003 03:00, Jesse Kline wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:55, Michael Buckley wrote: > > IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres" > > I don't know anything about databases, but looking at the error message, > it sounds like you need to run a ident server.
Yes, that's exactly the case. A probably better option is that Michael should change the authentication method from IDENT to something like password (or if his app connects over a public network but is not communicating via a secure connection(!), something like crypt).. this can be done in the pg_hba.conf file. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+YTMT1rcusafx20MRAlSFAJ9XTWPYglF4eye0grHi+QaJfGqu1QCfYyIv AymysQw2rfcIxBG+hXfe6qY= =+7CR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
