On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 1:46 PM stan <stanb@panix.com> wrote:
I am trying to set up to do some work with pg_dump, and I would like to be able to connect from my normal user to do this. This is on a Ubunt 18.04 installation. I have added the follwing to pg_hba.conf:
I get the following error, and yes, I set postgres'es password to something I know:
tan@stantest:~$ psql stan postgres -W Password: psql: error: could not connect to server: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "postgres" stan@stantest:~$
What am I doing wrong?
By default, Debian has a row in pg_hba.conf that enforces peer specifically for the postgres superuser when connecting over unix sockets (which is a very good thing from a security perspective). You will have to find that row further up in the file and comment it out (since the first row that matches will be used).