* Thom Brown (thombrown@gmail.com) wrote:
> 2009/10/15 A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>:
> >>
> >> The pg_hba.conf is probably relevant here, so this is the setup:
> >>
> >> # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
> >>
> >> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
> >> local all all trust
> >> # IPv4 local connections:
> >> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
> >> # IPv6 local connections:
> >> host all all ::1/128 trust
> >
> > Try to change trust to sameuser.
> >
>
> I've made that change, but now PostgreSQL won't start, and outputs the
> following error in the log:
>
> 2009-10-15 11:52:41 BST [18720]: [2-1] CONTEXT: line 74 of
> configuration file "/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/data/pg_hba.conf"
> 2009-10-15 11:52:41 BST [18720]: [3-1] LOG: invalid authentication
> method "sameuser
You need it to be 'ident sameuser', not just 'sameuser'. Also, only do
that for the 'local' line. Comment out the host lines if you don't need
them. If you do need them, change them to something else (eg: md5 if
you want password-based, gssapi if you have a Kerberos or MS/Active
Directory infrastructure, ldap is also an option, etc...).
'local' is used when connecting over a unix socket, eg: psql -d blah
'host' is used when connecting over a network: psql -d blah -h myhost
Stephen
Stephen