Re: Connecting to PostgreSQL server with Mono using ident authetication

> it is my first shot using Mono and I failed to get the example from
>
>     http://www.mono-project.de/wiki/keyword/PostgreSQL/
>
> working.  The reason is obviousely that whatever I tried
> NpgsqlConnection
> tries to use password authentication but I have configured my system
> that ident authentication is used by default.
>
> I'm using Debian GNU/Linux testing running postgresql 8.2 and
> mono 1.2.
> Could anybody enlight me how to connect to a database where users have
> no password set because always ident authentication is used
> on local host.

The best list for this kind of thing is certainly the Npgsql
mailing list:
http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/npgsql-general

What error messages do you get when you try to connect?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe