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> Genuine authentication failures and related problems generally
manifest themselves through error messages like the following.
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>FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "123.123.123.123", user "andym", database "testdb"</PRE
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This is what you are most likely to get if you succeed in contacting
the server, but it does not want to talk to you. As the message
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>FATAL: Password authentication failed for user "andym"</PRE
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Messages like this indicate that you contacted the server, and it is
willing to talk to you, but not until you pass the authorization
method specified in the <TT
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the password you are providing, or check your Kerberos or ident
software if the complaint mentions one of those authentication
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>FATAL: user "andym" does not exist</PRE
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The indicated user name was not found.
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>FATAL: database "testdb" does not exist</PRE
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The database you are trying to connect to does not exist. Note that
if you do not specify a database name, it defaults to the database
user name, which may or may not be the right thing.
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> The server log may contain more information about an
authentication failure than is reported to the client. If you are
confused about the reason for a failure, check the log.
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