Re: pg_connect troubles on localhost

thks for info - but my pg_ident is empty (correctly I believe since
users are equal to pg_users) so I have:

pg_ident.conf
# MAPNAME     IDENT-USERNAME    PG-USERNAME

pg_hba.conf
# TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all         all                               ident sameuser

I don't want to start manually editing these files before figuring out
what is going wrong or if something, somehow got corrupted, then how to
clean up and recreate.   I am just starting out, so I can delete and
start over if I need to.  Any ideas ?

Jerry Sievers wrote:
> John Taber <jtaber@johntaber.net> writes:
>
>
>>using postgresql 8.1 on Ubuntu Breezy
>>I cannot connect to a database I created - checking \du the username is
>>listed.  I also created a password with #ALTER ROLE yyyy WITH PASSWORD
>>'zzzz'  I tried without password but it calls for a password.  Any ideas?
>>
>><?php
>>$vhost = 'localhost';
>>$vname = 'xxxx';
>>$vuser = 'yyyy';
>>$vpassword = 'zzzz';
>>$db_handle = pg_connect("dbname=$vname user=$vuser password=$vpassword");
>>pg_close($db_handle);
>>?>
>>
>>Warning: pg_connect() [function.pg-connect]: Unable to connect to
>>PostgreSQL server:
>>FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "yyyy" in /var/www/test.php
>>on line 12
>
>
> See to it that there's  an entry in pg_ident.conf to map the webserver
> process owner to  your vuser DB username.
>
> The error message is telling you that your pg_hba.conf file has an
> entry for the database that uses the ident map file.
>
> See comments in both files and the Postgres docs as well for more
> info.
>
> HTH
>
>