Re: "IDENT authentication failed" but I'm not using ident

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 02:19, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com> writes:
> > \connect: FATAL:  IDENT authentication failed for user "nico"
>
> > I changed /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf so it only contains
> >   local    all     all   trust=20
> > and restarted postgres but I still get the same error message.
> > Any idea why the import complains about IDENT authentication when=20
> > I'm not even using it and how to get around it?
>
> If you're getting that message then you *are* using IDENT auth.
> My bet is that you changed the wrong config file.  /etc/postgresql
> is not a very standard name for a Postgres data directory ...

Yep, figured that out in the mean time. /etc/postgresql is the standard
location on Debian but this seems to have changed with the latest
upgrade on Debian/Sarge.

>
> > BTW: is there a way to create a database and then change ownership
> > to somebody else?
>
> No, but you can do it in one step.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/sql-createdatabase.html

Damn, should read man-page, should read man-page, should read man-page!

Thanks!

Nico

>
>             regards, tom lane
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