Re: cannot connect using terminal nor pgaccess

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Jaume Teixi writes:
>
> > but why the tcp/ip also doesn't works ?
> >
> > teixi@thinkpad:~$ grep -v ^# /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf | grep -i host
> >
> > host         all         127.0.0.1     255.255.255.0       ident sameuser
>                                                                    ^^^^^^^^
> > host         all         0.0.0.0       0.0.0.0             reject
>
> > teixi@thinkpad:~$ psql -d template1 -U postgres -h localhost -p 5432
>   ^^^^^                                  ^^^^^^^^
> > psql: IDENT authentication failed for user 'postgres'
>
> "sameuser" means "same user".  Please read up on the details of ident
> authentication.
>
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I'm not that familiar with pg yet, but maybe his problem is with the auth line:
host         all         127.0.0.1     255.255.255.0       ident sameuser

How can an IP going through mask 255.255.255.0 yield x.x.x.1 ? Shouldn't the netmask be 255.255.255.255?

regards,
thalis