Thanks Adrian, This got me going.
Regards, Bill However running the dShell - bowse example still does not On 04/29/2012 09:23 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 04/29/2012 07:07 AM, Bill House wrote: >> >> On 04/29/2012 08:43 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: >>> On 04/29/2012 06:39 AM, Bill House wrote: >>>> Hello all, >>>> >>>> I am not having much success with connecting to my postgresql server. >>>> >>>> D >>>> >>>> Will someone tell me what I have done wrong? >>> >>> >>> What is the error message? >>> What does the Postgres log show? >>> >> ###################### >> Connection Test: Failed (from CxnEditor >> ###################### >> Could not connect to the database: FATAL: Ident authentication failed >> for user "wch" >> > > You are using ident authentication instead of password. This requires > that the database user you are connecting as, be the same as the > system user you are logged in as. This is happening because of the > following two lines: > > host all all 127.0.0.1/32 ident > > > host all all ::1/128 ident > > Change the ident to md5 and you should be good. md5 is the encrypted > version of password. > > The reason the below is not being invoked is that in your connection > string you are probably passing the localhost argument which makes a > TCP/IP connection(host) instead of a socket(local) connection. > > local all all password > > The details of what all this means can be found here: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/client-authentication.html > > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
