From: craig duncan <duncan@...>
Date: 2004-11-02T01:14:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem getting tiny RAILS demo working

Vincent Foley wrote:

>Is config/database.yml properly configured?  An authorization error
>seems related to username and password.  Check out
>http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/TutorialStepTwo to make sure your
>PostgreSQL configuration is okay.
>  
>
It is.  I can't figure out why ident authentication (postgres) doesn't 
seem to work but when i make the first line in pg_hba.conf "host all all 
trust" then every local user has access (e.g. psql <database> 
postgres).  database.yml specifies user "postgres".  It really shouldn't 
matter, though.  IDENT authentication shouldn't even be being used.  I'm 
running ruby 1.8.2 on debian unstable, postgresql 7.4.6.   I saw 
something somewhere about needing to run an IDENT daemon, but could find 
no verification for that idea.  Anyway, as i said, IDENT authentication 
shouldn't even be being used.