On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 1:46 PM stan <st...@panix.com> wrote: > I am trying to set up to do some work with pg_dump, and I would like to be > able to connect from my normal user to do this. This is on a Ubunt 18.04 > installation. I have added the follwing to pg_hba.conf: > > host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5 > hostssl all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5 > > But when I try to login like this: > > psql stan postgres -W > > I get the following error, and yes, I set postgres'es password to something > I know: > > tan@stantest:~$ psql stan postgres -W > Password: > psql: error: could not connect to server: FATAL: Peer authentication > failed for user "postgres" > stan@stantest:~$ > > What am I doing wrong? > > By default, Debian has a row in pg_hba.conf that enforces peer specifically for the postgres superuser when connecting over unix sockets (which is a very good thing from a security perspective). You will have to find that row further up in the file and comment it out (since the first row that matches will be used).
//Magnus
