Gunnar-
It looks to me like the two lines in pg_hba conflict, and the first one is
being used. Since you are logged in as root, it looks for "sameuser" on
foobar and doesn't get a match.
Try either logging into linux as foobar or eliminate the first line of
pg_hba.
-Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Gunnar
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 2:35 AM
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: [ADMIN] Connection problem
>
>
> I'm having problems connecting to my postgresql 7.2.1 running on
> my Debian
> Linux box.
>
> (as root)
> $ psql template1 foobar
> psql: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user "foobar"
>
> Could anybody tell me what the problem is?
> The user "foobar" is created with the createuser command without
> any problem.
>
> Here is the pg_hba.conf
>
> local all ident sameuser
> local all trust
>
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