[Duraspace] PostgresSQL error

[Hilton Gibson]

Yes.

Sorry for the late replies, I am on leave.


On 23/06/2010 13:54, Bravismore Mumanyi wrote:
> Thanks Hilton.
> That did the trick to resolve the postgres error. I am only running 
> into problems with "update-java-alternatives -s java-6-openjdk". when 
> I run the command
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for mozilla-javaplugin.so.
> update-java-alternatives: plugin alternative does not exist: 
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
> Should I just ignore this?
> Regards
> /Bravismore
>
> >>> Hilton Gibson <hilton.gibson at gmail.com> 2010/06/23 09:39 AM >>>
> Hi Bravismore
>
> Change the ident's to md5's.
> I am not sure what ident auth is.
>
> Cheers
>
> hg
>
> On 23/06/2010 08:53, Bravismore Mumanyi wrote:
>> Hi Hilton,
>> I do hope I find you well.
>> I am having the following error the moment I try to go to the 
>> postgres prompt "psql -U postgres". If I change ident to trust 
>> method, everything works but am not prompted for a password pausing a 
>> security risk.
>> Do you know of any workaround for this?
>> psql: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> # Database administrative login by UNIX sockets
>> local   all         postgres                          ident
>> # TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD
>> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
>> local   all         all                               ident
>> # IPv4 local connections:
>> host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          md5
>> # IPv6 local connections:
>> host    all         all         ::1/128               md5
>>
>>
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