On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 3:23 PM Atul Kumar <akumar14...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have postgres 13 running on centos 7.
>
> I am facing an issue while trying to connect the cluster using the below
> command.
>
> -bash-4.2$ psql postgres
>
> psql: error: connection to server on socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed:
> Permission denied
>
> Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that
> socket?
>
>
> but when I am trying to connect using the below command I am able to login
> to the cluster successfully.
>
> -bash-4.2$ psql postgres -h localhost
>
> postgres=#
>
>
> I am not sure what is causing this issue and what needs to be done to
> resolve it ?
>
psql explicitly tells you the problem:
socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: *Permission denied*
Did you look at the permissions on /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432?
