On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 15:55:52 -0600,
James Hall <James.Hall@RadioShack.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much for the reply.
>
> I tried your suggestion, and my OS [RH7] must not support it, because that
> setting would not allow any logins (local or TCP/IP). A telnet attempt
> resulted in "missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf".
>
> I know what I am trying to do is possible, because on postgresql 6.5 it
> worked like a charm. Haven't been able to get it working since upgrading to
> 7.1.
You shouldn't be using telnet to contact the database. What I assumed is
that you were telneting to the machine the database server was running on
and running psql to talk to the database.
The ident feature works on linux.
The syntax changed in 7.2 (I think), but your stuff looked like it was from
an earlier version.
You might want to repost what you ended up using as someone may be able to
spot something wrong.