Connecting as root may be ill advised (doing stuff as root is a bad idea unless one HAS to).

All that notwithstanding, you need to setup the correct permissions to allow the connections you want in pg_hba.conf, usually is /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf

Terry

Terry Fielder
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Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
Judith wrote:
Hello everybody!!

I'm trying in SUSE to connect to a postgres db and this is the error:

    Ident Authentification failed for user <<root>>

I'm already created the user with createuser root, but the error
persist, I would aprecciate some help, thanks in advanced
...or just cheat and get in as the postgres root user:
    psql -U postgres
Which on SUSE has no password.

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