Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com> writes:
> I have the following lines in my pg_hba.conf file.
> host all all 192.168.1.180 255.255.255.1 md5
Not relevant to your immediate problem, but: you almost certainly
want 255.255.255.255 as the netmask here.
> psql -h 192.168.1.155 -U test_user template1
> Password for user test_user: (I typed test_passwd)
> psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "test_user"
Did you look in the postmaster log to see if there were any more
details?
regards, tom lane