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On Sunday, March 28th, 2021 at 15:00, Bzzzz <lazyvirus@gmx.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:44:59 +0000
>
> Simon Connah simon.n.connah@protonmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > But instead of using my
> >
> > applications role which I created in PostgreSQL it is trying to use my
> >
> > Linux user name "simon" and is failing authentication because of it.
> >
> > I'm just confused at the moment. At no point in time have I created a
> >
> > role called "simon" and I have never tried to connect to any of my
> >
> > databases using the role name "simon", so why is it trying to
> >
> > authenticate as "simon"?
>
> Read this and check you're not in this case :
>
>
https://www.dbrnd.com/2016/12/postgresql-pg_ident-conf-to-map-operating-system-username-and-database-username-external-authentication-password/
>
> Jean-Yves
Thank you for your reply. My pg_ident.conf file is completely empty (well all commented out at least). Do you really
needto map a Linux system user to a PostgreSQL role to get this to work? Seems like a bit of a hack to me. I'm probably
missingsomething simple again. I don't need external access to the database at the moment, although it is helpful
knowledgeto have for the future.
This is all on my local machine so I've set pg_hba.conf to md5 for 127.0.0.1/32 which I assumed would just make it
work.
Simon.