Subject: Re: trouble with pgaccess
From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: davadie philippe <davadie.philippe@free.fr>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 01:11:30 +0000
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On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 22:19, davadie philippe wrote:
> 		Hi everybody !
> 
> 	Excuse my poor english, since I'm french, and the dummy question I will
> ask, since I'm new using pgaccess and postgresql.
> 	I have successfully installed pgaccess, but when I try to connect to
> the databses I have created, I get the message :
> 
> 	Error trying to connect to database 'garde' on host
> 	PostgreSQL error message : Connection to database failed
> 	FATAL : IDENT authentication failed for user "philippe"
> 
> 	User philippe has been created by superuser postgres and is granted for
> this database.

Access control is governed by the file $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf.  The
relevant line in that file is specifying "ident sameuser"
authentication, which means that it expects the postgresql user to have
the same name as the unix user; if your unix login were "philippe" it
would work.

Create a postgresql user with the same name as your login and try again.

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