From: Gerhard Häring <haering_postgresql@gmx.de>
To: G.LeeJohnson <info@heartseed.org>
Cc: postgres-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: IDENT authentication failed for user postgres
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 04:40:00 +0200
Message-ID: <20020928024000.GA9488@lilith.ghaering.test> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1033179004.2066.7.camel@dhcp-352-66>
References: <1033179004.2066.7.camel@dhcp-352-66>
* G.LeeJohnson <info@heartseed.org> [2002-09-27 19:10 -0700]:
> Hi,
> I have connection established between my windows ( where i am trying
> to use pgadmin with pgmigration wizard) and linux and of course a
> firewall that I believe is set correctly to allow ports connect (
> 113according to refusal error in postmaster)...
>
> I'm wondering if anyone can help me diagnose the error in Subject
> line of this post....Ive tried editing both fiewall and pg_hba.conf to
> get this working..no dice
You obviously can't use ident based authentication from an OS that
doesn't provide the ident service. So you'll have to edit the
pg_hba.conf and enable the md5 authentication mechanism, for example.
Your pg_hba.conf should contain the necessary comments to understand its
format.
HTH,
-- Gerhard
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