Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Saturday 2005-09-10 at 15:16 +0300, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:

> from PostgreSQL 8 log:
> LOG:  database system is ready
> LOG:  could not connect to Ident server at address "127.0.0.1", port 
> 113: Connection refused
> FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"
...
> Additionally, what does it 
> have to do with port 113? Config file specifies port 5432.

Because "ident" is a different service, standard, but seldom used, 
and probably not even installed.

Why PostgreSQL tries to use it, I don't know, I'm not an expert in 
PostgreSQL.


pidentd-...rpm:

  This package contains identd, which implements a RFC1413 identification
  server.  Identd looks up specific TCP/IP connections and returns the
  user name and other information about the connection.

oidentd-....rpm:    Summary     : Configurable IDENT server that supports NAT/IP masq
    Description :
    Oidentd is an ident (rfc1413 compliant) daemon that runs on Linux,
    Darwin, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Solaris.  oidentd can handle IP
    masqueraded/NAT connections on Linux, Darwin, FreeBSD (ipf only),
    OpenBSD and  NetBSD.  Oidentd has a flexible mechanism for specifying
    ident responses.  Users can be granted permission to specify their own
    ident responses.  Responses can be specified according to host and port
    pairs.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson

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