On 5 May 2006 02:22:32 -0700, robert <robertlazarski@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, hope this is the right list.
>
> I have postgres 8.1 running on linux. We have tests that mostly run on
> windows. I want to run these tests on linux.
>
> On these windows boxes, pg_hba.conf has just one line:
>
> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
>
> They use 'postgres' as the user and password to connect to a db.
>
> I couldn't start postgres on linux with just that line, so on linux I
> have:
>
> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
> local all all ident sameuser
> # IPv4 local connections:
> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
> # IPv6 local connections:
> host all all ::1/128 ident sameuser
>
> I created my db as:
> postgres=# CREATE DATABASE maragato_test OWNER postgres;
>
> I seem to have a user 'postgres' - I'm using the default.
>
> postgres=# SELECT * FROM "pg_user";
> usename | usesysid | usecreatedb | usesuper | usecatupd | passwd |
> valuntil | useconfig
> ----------+----------+-------------+----------+-----------+----------+----------+-----------
> postgres | 10 | t | t | t | ******** |
> |
>
> However, I get this error:
>
> /home/postgres> psql -h localhost maragato_test postgres
> Password for user postgres:
> psql: FATAL: autenticação do tipo password falhou para usuário
> "postgres"
>
> Sorry - couldn't get local en_US working. That translates to:
> Authentication of type password failed for user postgres. I think that
> means 'ident password' . I tried to connect with java and I get the
> same error.
>
> I just need to connect to db 'maragato_test' on local host using
> 'postgres´ as the user and password, using md5.
Try '-h 127.0.0.1' rather than 'localhost' - it's still seeing the
connection as coming through the socket, not through tcpip, so it's
matching the "ident" rule.
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