Received: from sss.sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [209.114.166.2] (may be forged)) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01245 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:19:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) Received: from sss.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.sss.pgh.pa.us (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA29473; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:18:45 -0400 (EDT) To: Doug Thistlethwaite cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] jdbc interface problems with jdk1.2 In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:18:26 -0700 <379414B2.FC67F452@deltanet.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:18:45 -0400 Message-ID: <29471.932480325@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane Doug Thistlethwaite writes: > Password authentication failed for user 'doug' > > Does anybody have an idea of what I can try to get this working? This tells you you are getting pretty far: you are making a TCP connection, and the postmaster is recognizing that the entry for your IP address in pg_hba demands password authentication. So, either you are supplying the wrong password from the client end, or something's wrong with the password file. There might be more info in the postmaster log file than is reported to the client --- did you look there? One potential typo stands out in your message: > The password file was created using the command pg_passwd > /var/postgresql/passwd ^^^^^^^^^^ > host doug IP.ADDRESS.OF PC 255.255.255.0 password > /var/postgres/passwd ^^^^^^^^ Prolly that's just a transcription error in your message, but if it's real... regards, tom lane