Re: [GENERAL] ident authentication with named localhost

2006-05-12 Thread Tom Lane
David Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for your suggestion. I'm new to the concept of packet sniffing > and tracing. Can you suggest where I should go or what I should read to > better understand this? "man strace" ... strace is probably easier to use for this purpose than a packet sn

Re: [GENERAL] ident authentication with named localhost

2006-05-12 Thread David Link
Tom Lane wrote: David Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Does anyone know how I can test ident? I'd try sniffing the IP traffic to and from it with a packet sniffer and/or tracing the daemon's system calls with strace. Manually invoking the daemon isn't going to prove a lot, you want to

Re: [GENERAL] ident authentication with named localhost

2006-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
David Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how I can test ident? I'd try sniffing the IP traffic to and from it with a packet sniffer and/or tracing the daemon's system calls with strace. Manually invoking the daemon isn't going to prove a lot, you want to watch its reaction to Pos

[GENERAL] ident authentication with named localhost

2006-05-11 Thread David Link
Hi, I am having trouble with ident authentication. Everything is working fine except when specifying host for connections on the local machine. pg_hba.conf: local all all ident wp hostall all 10.97.8.0/24 ident wp pg_ident.conf: