On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:33 PM, k...@rice.edu <k...@rice.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 01:57:47PM +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to enable "ident" authentication on my Windows machine using
>> PostgreSQL 9.1
>>
>> However as soon as I add the following line to pg_hba.conf
>>
>> host all all ::1/128 ident sameuser
>>
>> I get an error message when trying to login (after a server reload of course)
>>
>> psql: FATAL: could not load pg_hba.conf
>>
>> It is precisely that line above. As soon as I remove it I can logon again
>> (with a username/password of course).
>>
>> I did verify that my connections are done through IPV6.
>>
>> Here is the current content of my pg_hba.conf:
>>
>> --------- snip ----------
>> # TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD
>>
>> # IPv4 local connections:
>> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
>>
>> # IPv6 local connections:
>> host all all ::1/128 md5
>> --------- snip ----------
>>
>> Ideally I would like to make "ident" to work with a custom map but using
>> "ident tkmap". But that throws the same error which isn't really surprising
>> as "ident tkmap" is not working either.
>>
>> Is ident not supported on Windows? I could not find anything related to that
>> in the manual.
>>
>> Regards
>> Thomas
>>
>
> I believe that that is the case. There is no Windows ident support.
There should be ident support for Windows. Just not over local
connections ("peer") - since local connections are not supported.
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