Is this good advice? IDENT Authentication failed for user "postgres"
This error has everything to do with the way distros set up access rights for postgres. They are way too restrictive and leave you wondering what to do next. Do yourself a favour and change authentication type in pg_hba.conf to local all trust until you have figured out what all this stuff in pg_hba.conf does. Read about the different authentication settings and change them as you see fit. It is all described in detail in pg_hba.conf In any case I don't have a pg_hba.conf file: :~> locate pg_hba.conf /usr/share/postgresql/pg_hba.conf.sample :~> Should I have one? If I should, where does it belong? Thanks, Jerome ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org