thks for info - but my pg_ident is empty (correctly I believe since users are equal to pg_users) so I have:

pg_ident.conf
# MAPNAME     IDENT-USERNAME    PG-USERNAME

pg_hba.conf
# TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all         all                               ident sameuser

I don't want to start manually editing these files before figuring out what is going wrong or if something, somehow got corrupted, then how to clean up and recreate. I am just starting out, so I can delete and start over if I need to. Any ideas ?

Jerry Sievers wrote:
John Taber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


using postgresql 8.1 on Ubuntu Breezy
I cannot connect to a database I created - checking \du the username is listed. I also created a password with #ALTER ROLE yyyy WITH PASSWORD 'zzzz' I tried without password but it calls for a password. Any ideas?

<?php
$vhost = 'localhost';
$vname = 'xxxx';
$vuser = 'yyyy';
$vpassword = 'zzzz';
$db_handle = pg_connect("dbname=$vname user=$vuser password=$vpassword");
pg_close($db_handle);
?>

Warning: pg_connect() [function.pg-connect]: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "yyyy" in /var/www/test.php on line 12


See to it that there's  an entry in pg_ident.conf to map the webserver
process owner to  your vuser DB username.

The error message is telling you that your pg_hba.conf file has an
entry for the database that uses the ident map file.
See comments in both files and the Postgres docs as well for more
info.

HTH



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