On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:56:49AM -0500,
 Randall Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
 a message of 56 lines which said:

> On top of that I don't know how you authenticated using IDENT
> because my attempts to do so failed.

With 'host = localhost' (but I insist that Unix socket support is
necessary to me), you need an ident server (not with Unix sockets
which uses the PEERCREED option of the socket). May be you did not
have one?

% telnet localhost ident
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
...

% psql -h localhost registry
Welcome to psql 7.4.7, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
...
registry=> 

% tail /var/log/daemon.log
...
Jul 12 17:15:12 batilda identd[30936]: started

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