From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Getting "ident" to work in Windows
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 15:50:06 +0200
Message-ID: <jo0mnd$hg0$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
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Magnus Hagander, 04.05.2012 15:22:
>> I'm trying to enable "ident" authentication on my Windows machine using
>> PostgreSQL 9.1
>>
>> However as soon as I add the following line to pg_hba.conf
>>
>> host all all ::1/128 ident sameuser
>
> "sameuser" was removed in PostgreSQL 8.4. Now you just use "ident" if
> you want that behavior.
Thanks, I somehow missed that.
> It probably told you this in the logfile when you did reload - for
> security reasons, the details of the error are never given to an
> unauthenticated client.
No, I only got the could not load pg_hba.conf" error message.
>> Ideally I would like to make "ident" to work with a custom map but using
>> "ident tkmap". But that throws the same error which isn't really surprising
>> as "ident tkmap" is not working either.
>
> ident map=tkmap
>
> is what you want. See
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/auth-methods.html#AUTH-IDENT
I still get an authentication error but probably that's because ident is indeed not available on Windows.
It's not that important as I just wanted to play around with it.
Thanks for the help.
Regards
Thomas
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