Re: IDENT authentication failed for user postgres

Hello Gerhard,

Friday, September 27, 2002, 11:40:00 PM, you wrote:

GH> * G.LeeJohnson <info@heartseed.org> [2002-09-27 19:10 -0700]:
>> Hi,
>>    I have connection established between my windows ( where i am trying
>> to use pgadmin with pgmigration wizard) and linux and of course a
>> firewall that I believe is set correctly to allow ports connect (
>> 113according to refusal error in postmaster)...
>> 
>>    I'm wondering if anyone can help me diagnose the error in Subject
>> line of this post....Ive tried editing both fiewall and pg_hba.conf to
>> get this working..no dice 

GH> You obviously can't use ident based authentication from an OS that
GH> doesn't provide the ident service. So you'll have to edit the
Nope.
There are several ident servers for windows - like
http://identd.dyndns.org/identd/.

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