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Re: psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"



On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:24:30AM -0700, Dan Joo wrote:

> /home/djoo[8:25am]$ %psql kermit -U postgres
> 
> psql: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"

> confused why I can't access.  Is there another file that I need to alter
> besides the pg_hba.conf file?  

That depends on the content of your pg_hba.conf file.

Karsten
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