On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 07:06, Joel Lopez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These are the commands I entered:
>
> su postgres
> createuser phpuser
> allowed to create DB: y
> allowed to create users: y
> (saw CREATE USER)
> createdb phpdb
> (saw CREATE DATABASE)
>
> psql phpdb -U phpuser
> (saw psql: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user "phpuser")
>
> Is there a step I'm missing or am I entering the commands wrong?
You need to "trust" local users in pg_hba.conf.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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