Re: Ident authentication

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:55:29PM +0200, Jarkko Elfving wrote:

> I'm trying to connect to my test DB in localhost with pgAdmin3 but I got
> an error message
>
> Error connecting to the server: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for
> user "jarkko"

Are you using a TCP connection or a Unix-domain socket connection?
If the former, do you have an IDENT server running?  If the latter,
what platform are you using?  Not all operating systems can pass
credentials over Unix-domain sockets.

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Michael Fuhr
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