Re: "IDENT authentication failed" but I'm not using ident

Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com> writes:
> \connect: FATAL:  IDENT authentication failed for user "nico"

> I changed /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf so it only contains
>   local    all     all   trust=20
> and restarted postgres but I still get the same error message.
> Any idea why the import complains about IDENT authentication when=20
> I'm not even using it and how to get around it?

If you're getting that message then you *are* using IDENT auth.
My bet is that you changed the wrong config file.  /etc/postgresql
is not a very standard name for a Postgres data directory ...

> BTW: is there a way to create a database and then change ownership
> to somebody else?

No, but you can do it in one step.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/sql-createdatabase.html

            regards, tom lane