On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> wrote:
> As you can see, if I use the machine's interface or unix sockets, it either
> asks for password or lets me in. But when I use localhost, it correctly uses
> 127.0.... line for authentication, but does not let me in!!!
>
> Is this not supposed to work? Could it be because I might not be having an
> ident server running on my box? How do I determine if I have an ident server
> running?
It's almost certain that that's the problem.
ident is configured off by default on most systems. Whether it's a
separate daemon or invoked through inetd/xinetd depends on the
distribution.
-Doug