HI I've got the right meanng of pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf.
My previous understanding was incorrect. I thought pgserver would automatically handle the conversion between OS users and PostgreSQL roles. Thanks all. ________________________________ 发件人: David G. Johnston <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> 发送时间: 2023年8月28日 14:44 收件人: pan snowave <win...@live.cn> 抄送: Alban Hertroys <haram...@gmail.com>; pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org> 主题: Re: ident auth does not works as usual On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 7:34 AM pan snowave <win...@live.cn<mailto:win...@live.cn>> wrote: But when i connect to psserver by using os user root /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -p5432 -d db1 -h127.0.0.1 If you want to login as the cce role add " -U cce " to your command line (or one of the various other ways you can specify a db role name via the cli or libpq) psql -U cce -h 127.0.0.1 -d db1 Keep in mind you could very well have two lines in your pg_ident.conf file: test root cce test root ddf David J.