Message-ID: <36BE9358.FA5952BE@bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 01:33:44 -0600
From: Bob VonMoss <bvonmoss@bigfoot.com>
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To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: connecting: unix socket? Yes. TCPIP port? No.-i?
	Yes.
References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9902080648060.19320-100000@maidast.retep.org.uk>
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Peter T Mount wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Bob VonMoss wrote:
>
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > Bob VonMoss <bvonmoss@bigfoot.com> writes:
> > > > [ can connect via unix socket, but not via TCP ]
> > >
> > > > The administrator says this is how postmaster is invoked:
> > > > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -S -i -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -p 5432
> > >
> > > OK, that eliminates the "forgot -i" gotcha.
> > >
> > > James Thompson is almost certainly right that the problem is that
> > > Postgres' pg_hba.conf file is not set up to allow connections from
> > > whichever IP address you are connecting from.
> > >
> > > We heard about a similar problem recently which turned out to be
> > > due to use of "virtual server" IP addresses.
> >
> > The pgsql administrator put a line in pg_hba.conf that looks like this,
> > where my_db is substituted for my database name:
> >
> > host my_db 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 ident sameuser
> >
> > I'm still getting the same 'User authentication failed' messages. Same thing
> > from JDBC.
> Is the machine you are running the java app or psql on running ident?

Not that I know of. I'm requesting this from the administrator:

host my_db 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 password sameuser

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