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
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