On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Tom Lane
<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Thomas Kirchtag <
tkircht@gmail.com> writes:
> 2009-07-08 21:28:06 CEST LOG: 00000: pam_authenticate failed: Permission
> denied
> 2009-07-08 21:28:06 CEST LOCATION: CheckPAMAuth, auth.c:1345
> This suggests some problems accessing some pam-related file but I cannot
> imagine which one?
Yeah, I'd guess the same. Perhaps strace would help determine which
file is inaccessible.
IIRC, you can only use PAM to authenticate against external services (i.e. LDAP / A.D. users). I *think* that in order to auth against local accounts, you need to be have a UID=0, which, PG does not.
--Scott