ok - fairly new to postgresql & tring to set up tcp/ip access using pam authentication using gentoo_linux 1.4_rc2 postgresql-7.3.1
my pg_hba.conf file has the entries # TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD local all all trust host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust host all all 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 pam postgresql my /etc/pam.d/postgresql file has the entries #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth when i try to connect (locally).... # psql test -U brett Password: (password entered - i know it is correct) psql: FATAL: PAM authentication failed for user "brett" i get the following entries in /var/log/auth.log - and a Jan 31 16:31:47 achilles unix_chkpwd[25987]: check pass; user unknown Jan 31 16:31:47 achilles postgresql(pam_unix)[25986]: authentication failure; logname= uid=70 euid=70 tty= ruser= rhost= user=brett 'brett' has a system level account. i can connect as user 'brett' if pg_hba.conf is set to 'trust', but never when pam is involved... any ideas? i've been mucking around with this for a couple of days & not getting very far regards, brett ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
