Re: Ident authentication failed for user - URGENT

Marina Olhovsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to assign a password for a postgres user.  I've logged in
> as postgres, issued "alter user my_user with password 'my_passwd'".
> Doing "select * from pg_users" shows the new user with password
> assigned.  However, when I try to start psql as the new user: "psql
> -U my_user -W" and enter my_passwd as password, I get "Ident
> authentication failed" error.  Could someone please help ASAP?  TIA.
>

Do you already have other users that can log in to psql? What does you
pg_hba.conf file have? Can you create the user successfully with createuser?

Have you read the docs thoroughly?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/client-authentication.html

brian