Re: Getting "ident" to work in Windows

[Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx>]

Magnus Hagander, 04.05.2012 15:22:
> > I'm trying to enable "ident" authentication on my Windows machine using
> > PostgreSQL 9.1
> >
> > However as soon as I add the following line to pg_hba.conf
> >
> >    host    all             all             ::1/128            ident sameuser
>
> "sameuser" was removed in PostgreSQL 8.4. Now you just use "ident" if
> you want that behavior.

Thanks, I somehow missed that.

> It probably told you this in the logfile when you did reload - for
> security reasons, the details of the error are never given to an
> unauthenticated client.

No, I only got the could not load pg_hba.conf" error message.


> > Ideally I would like to make "ident" to work with a custom map but using
> > "ident tkmap". But that throws the same error which isn't really surprising
> > as "ident tkmap" is not working either.
>
> ident map=tkmap
>
> is what you want. See
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/auth-methods.html#AUTH-IDENT

I still get an authentication error but probably that's because ident is indeed not available on Windows.
It's not that important as I just wanted to play around with it.


Thanks for the help.

Regards
Thomas

 



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