Re: [HACKERS] Authentication Woes

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, James Hughes wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> After installing the latest cvs tree this morning, I cannot use
> createuser and createdb. They break when trying to run psql. I can
> connect with psql to the template1 database after setting up hba to use
> password authentication and starting it with the -u option.
>
> Does the hba still use trust and ident as well? Is there a primer on the
> new authentication scheme?
>
> I am moving up from 6.1.0 on Linux.

    v6.1.0 would have used TCP/IP for communications exclusively...
v6.3 moved to using Unix Domain Sockets as default, with TCP/IP disabled
by default.  To "mirror" the old behavior, add the -i option to your
startup script and youshould be okay...