Re: local authentication with md5

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bernhard D Rohrer <graylion@sm-wg.net> writes:
>> I have set my authentication to
>> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
>> local   all         all                               md5 #ident sameuser
>
> Are you sure this actually took effect (ie did you "pg_ctl reload")?
>
>> 30-Mar 17:47 collab-dir: BeforeJob: run command
>> "/etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup bacula postgres
>> 'md5xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'"
>> 30-Mar 17:47 collab-dir: BeforeJob: pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection
>> to database "bacula" failed: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user
>> "postgres"
>
> It's clear that this connection is trying to use ident not md5.
> Either you didn't make the pg_hba edit take effect, or bacula
> is trying to use TCP instead of Unix-socket connection and you
> still have the "host" line set to ident.
>
>             regards, tom lane

The bizarre thing is that removing #ident sameuser solved it

clearly the # is not parsed correctly after a statement

cheers

Bernhard

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