Re: authentication failure

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Jayadevan M <maymala.jayadevan@gmail.com> wrote:

I am able to login from the non-chroot environment. So it is not an issue with pg_hba.conf and not an issue of password expiration. Is there a debug psql option?

OK.

Have you checked the PGPASSWORD environment variable, from where you are trying to login.

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Dinesh

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On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Chris Curvey <chris@chriscurvey.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Jayadevan M <maymala.jayadevan@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to login from psql and consistently getting a
"psql: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "xyz"" for all users. I am not being prompted for a password at all. I faced a similar issue sometime ago because there was a .pgpass file and it had wrong entries. This time there is no .pgpass file.

Any clues? How do I trouble-shoot?

Other possibly relevant info - this is a chrooted environment. I upgraded the OS recently in this env and faced some issues with /dev/null /proc etc not being present and so on. Some issues there?

The database itself is running in the same server in the non-chroot environment. I am also running a python application which uses psycopg2 and that is working fine.

Regards,

Jayadevan

Could it be a problem with your pg_hba.conf?  Perhaps password authentication is not enabled there? 

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