On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Olivier Billet wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:02:51PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Olivier Billet wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > > >I'm using postgresql and can use psql, but I dont > > >know how to allow people to connect to the databases. > > >I mean even users on the local host (my box) cant > > >connect. It seems that it's a matter of -i switch > > >before runing the postmaster. > > > > -i allows users to connect over TCP/IP; this is not necessary if they are > > on the same machine. > > the system throwed an error message when attempting to connect to > the database via the pgaccess front end. > (Error attempting to connect to database [...] are you running > postmaster with the -i option, is your system allowing tcpip > connections)
The pgaccess frontend uses TCP/IP instead of unix sockets, so the -i flag is required. > But now if X uses the front-end pgaccess he gets this error > message: > IDENT authentification failed for user 'X' > I don't know the correct answer to your problem, but I have an idea. You should check if identd daemon is running on your system (IDENT authentication). --Tibi ---------.Sig-------- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------