Perhaps the current authentication scheme you have set up is different for local and remote host. It might be that pgAdmin is connecting from a different machine? And if you're using ident authentication it might not work from a remote machine the same as for local.
Please give more details, such as the contents of pg_hba.conf and the way you're trying to connect from both psql and pgAdmin. Regards, Jeff Davis On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 18:10 -0300, Philip Pinkerton wrote: > When trying to connect to database via the pgAdmin3 GUI it asks for a > password. I use the same passworrd as I did when I connect to the DB via > command line but I get Ident error? > > how do I set, re-set the password so I can use both the commandline and > pgAdmin to access edit by DB? > > Thanks > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jeff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend