Re: [GENERAL] IDENT and pg_hda.conf

2004-01-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 23:39:23 -1000, Susemail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 wonder

Re: [GENERAL] IDENT and pg_hda.conf

2004-01-30 Thread Paul Thomas
On 30/01/2004 09:39 Susemail wrote: [snip] In any case I don't have a pg_hba.conf file: You should have, unless you haven't done an initdb... :~> locate pg_hba.conf /usr/share/postgresql/pg_hba.conf.sample :~> Should I have one? If I should, where does it belong? It's in PostgreSQL's data dir. O