Re: [ADMIN] ident authentication not working over loopback adapter

2002-12-20 Thread Ian Pilcher
Tom Lane wrote: Check to see if ident traffic is being filtered by kernel-level packet filtering. IIRC, RHL ships with mighty tight packet filtering, even on the loopback connection (which is a tad silly, but...). One easy way to investigate this is to see if you can telnet to the ident daemon:

Re: [ADMIN] ident authentication not working over loopback adapter

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Lane
Ian Pilcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a bit backwards. ident authentication is working for me over > Unix domain sockets, but it isn't working over the loopback adapter. > Notes: This is Red Hat Linux 8.0. Password authentication works over > Unix domain sockets or the loopb

[ADMIN] ident authentication not working over loopback adapter

2002-12-20 Thread Ian Pilcher
This is a bit backwards. ident authentication is working for me over Unix domain sockets, but it isn't working over the loopback adapter. Here is my /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf: # Allow local and loopback users to connect to self-named databases # local sameuser iden