Re: problem to connect

The default behavior for postgres uses IDENT. So you need to log on as 
user nicolas to be able to use postgres user nicolas. You can look at 
/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf for configuration detail.

Wei

nicolas renie wrote:

> Hye
>  
> I use linux mandrack 9.0 and postgres 7.2
> I can't connect to postgresql (even in local) if I use a postgres user.
> I don't know what to do.
> I've started the daemon (root# etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start)
> logged under postgres I made a user (createuser nico) and a 
> database(createdb test)
> But I can't access to this database if I am logged under an other user.
> (su Eddy or anathor linux user)
>  
> When I try: psql test -h localhost -U nicolas I have the message :
> IDENT authentification failed for user nicolas.
> I can see the same message when I try to connect whith pgaccess.
>  
> If I try to start pgaccess with: "pgaccess test", the main PgAccess 
> window
>  comes up, (empty) but there is an error message box in front of it. 
> The message is:
>     
>  "Error trying to connect to database "test" on host localhost.
>    is the postmaster running (with -i) at
>     'localhost' and accepting connections on TCP/IP port '5432'?"
>  
> Therefore I stopped postgresql etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql stop
> I started it logged under postgres with options ($ postmaster -h 
> localhost -i )
>  
> I logged under another linux user
> I tried : psql test -h localhost -U nicolas and received the message
>  
> No pga_hba.conf entry for host localhost, user nicolas, database test
>  
> I tryed to change the pg_dba.conf (trust) file but another message 
> appears.
>  
> I would like to know what to do especially to use pgaccess
>  
>  
> Please, help me !
> regards
>  
> Nicolas RENIE
>  
>