Re: Authentification failed

<tt>Connecting as root may be ill advised  (doing stuff as root is a bad idea unless one HAS to).<br /><br /> All that
notwithstanding,you need to setup the correct permissions to allow the connections you want in pg_hba.conf, usually is
/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf<br/><br /> Terry<br /><br /></tt> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Terry Fielder
 
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:terry@greatgulfhomes.com">terry@greatgulfhomes.com</a>
Associate Director Software Development and Deployment
Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
Fax: (416) 441-9085</pre><br /><br /> Bryce Nesbitt wrote: <blockquote cite="mid46C16837.7020608@obviously.com"
type="cite"><prewrap="">Judith wrote: </pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">Hello everybody!!
 

I'm trying in SUSE to connect to a postgres db and this is the error:
   Ident Authentification failed for user <<root>>

I'm already created the user with createuser root, but the error
persist, I would aprecciate some help, thanks in advanced    </pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">...or just cheat and get
inas the postgres root user:   psql -U postgres
 
Which on SUSE has no password.
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