You are 100% correct. The line forcing IDENT authentication was
uncommented (and unseen) in the configuration file. I commented it out and
everything worked well. Thanks!
Don
Tom Lane
<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> To: "Donald Tucker" <dtucker@arlut.utexas.edu>
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pgsql-novice-owner@pos Subject: Re: [NOVICE] DBD::Pg installation difficulty during make
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03/21/2003 06:19 PM
"Donald Tucker" <dtucker@arlut.utexas.edu> writes:
> "DBI->connect(dbase=MYDBASE) failed: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed
> for user "MYUSER"."
> I have the configuration file set up NOT to use IDENT authentication:
> local all trust
> host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
Sure looks like it thinks it should be using IDENT. Perhaps you used to
have IDENT lines in pg_hba.conf? If so, I'll bet you forgot to SIGHUP
the postmaster after changing the config file. (See "pg_ctl reload" for
a convenient way to do this.) The only other possibilities I can see
are that DBD is trying to talk to some other postmaster, or that you're
editing the wrong config file.
regards, tom lane
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