On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 14:12:31 -0600,
"Epps, Aaron M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got an authentication questions. I've just setup pg_hba.conf to use "local
> all all trust" for testing purposes, but when the application I'm using
> tries to connect to the PostgreSQL Db (Using PHP) I get the following error.
>
> " Warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL: IDENT
> authentication failed for user "webuser" . in
> /var/www/html/issue-tracker/includes/classes/dbi.class.php on line 98 "
>
> To me, it looks like PostgreSQL is still trying to authenticate, even though it
> should be trusting all local socket connections. BTW, the web server and PostgreSQL
> server are on the same machine, so it's a local connection, not host. Do I need to
> modify anything in pg_ident.conf? I'd appreciate any help you can offer. Thx.
The authentication tests are done in order, with the first one that applies
being used. So if there is a rule for doing ident authentication for that
database and user before the trust rule, then the trust rule won't get used.
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