On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:31 AM Johannes Lüdke < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am setting up wal-e on a production server. My local proof of concept > worked well, but now I get an > > ``` > FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres" (SQLSTATE 28000) > ``` > It means that, for whatever reason, the defaults (which tend to rely on unix sockets and peer authentication, as wal-e is conveniently run as the postgres unix user by default), do not work for you. > What is the recommended way to fix this? Can I configure which > user/password wal-e uses to connect to the db? > If you can't make the defaults work for some reason (I think you should justify to yourself why that may be, and check pg_hba.conf), you have control over credentials via libpq environment variables. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-envars.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "wal-e" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
