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* IDENT authentication problem
@ 2002-08-27 21:26 Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
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From: Wei Weng @ 2002-08-27 21:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-sql
This is what I did:
1: I reinstalled postgresql RPMs from scratch (I removed all the logs,
data files, backup files)
2: su root
3: su postgres
4: psql template1
And here I got the error message:
psql: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user "foobar"
User "foobar" was an old user I created for the database *before* I
wiped out everything and reinstalled the RPMs. It is already gone from
my /etc/password. (since I was using IDENT)
What could have gone wrong? I must have left the trace of user foobar
somewhere in my system but I couldn't find it.
Thanks
--
Wei Weng
Network Software Engineer
KenCast Inc.
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* Re: IDENT authentication problem
@ 2002-08-27 22:13 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
parent: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2002-08-27 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>; +Cc: pgsql-sql
Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com> writes:
> What could have gone wrong? I must have left the trace of user foobar
> somewhere in my system but I couldn't find it.
PGUSER environment variable?
regards, tom lane
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