On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, jgdon wrote:
> Hello I am playing with a fresh install of mandrake 8.2 and have decided
> to use the postgresql db as my database for a simple phonebook application.
>
> I am following the steps from a tutorial but can't seem to be able to
> access my data base as the user i created ... I keep getting the msg:
>
> psql: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user "jim"
>
>
> I am going to keep reading ... but i will hopefully get an answer to
> this post quicker [;-)]
What does your pg_hba.conf (in the data directory) say? Are you logged in
as a user named jim?