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* IDENT authentication problem
@ 2002-08-27 21:26 Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
  2002-08-27 22:13 ` Re: IDENT authentication problem Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread

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 21:26 IDENT authentication problem Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
@ 2002-08-27 22:13 ` Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread

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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