Failed to create environment. FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "tracuser"

[curtisbr@…]

Following the installation instructions, I am able to install Trac and create the postgresql database (using the same syntax as suggested for Debian). However, when I attempt to initialize the Trac environment, I get:

Creating and Initializing Project Failed to create environment. FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "tracuser"

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11b1-py2.4.egg/trac/admin/console.py", line 541, in do_initenv
    options=options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11b1-py2.4.egg/trac/env.py", line 187, in __init__
    self.create(options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11b1-py2.4.egg/trac/env.py", line 304, in create
    DatabaseManager(self).init_db()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11b1-py2.4.egg/trac/db/api.py", line 70, in init_db
    connector.init_db(**args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11b1-py2.4.egg/trac/db/postgres_backend.py", line 65, in init_db
    cnx = self.get_connection(path, user, password, host, port, params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11b1-py2.4.egg/trac/db/postgres_backend.py", line 46, in get_connection
    cnx = PostgreSQLConnection(path, user, password, host, port, params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11b1-py2.4.egg/trac/db/postgres_backend.py", line 141, in __init__
    client_encoding='utf-8', unicode_results=True)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/pyPgSQL/PgSQL.py", line 2210, in connect
    return Connection(connInfo, client_encoding, unicode_results)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/pyPgSQL/PgSQL.py", line 2365, in __init__
    raise DatabaseError, m
DatabaseError: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "tracuser"

Failed to initialize environment. 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11b1-py2.4.egg/trac/admin/console.py", line 545, in do_initenv
    sys.exit(1)
SystemExit: 1

As the error suggests, I am using Ident authorization (do you advise this method?). I created a "tracuser" account on the system and executed this command to initialize the Trac environment:

[tracuser@localhost ~]$ sudo su - postgres -c 'trac-admin /var/local/trac/featurestage initenv'

I am using CentOS 5.1

[Emmanuel Blot]

Installation issue → please post to the MailingList.

[a.raneesh@…]

I am also having the same problem . I am using fedora 6 and trac.10. Please help

[Christian Boos]

1. Can't you read?
2. ​Can't you google? (warning, requires 1.)

Sorry to be harsh, but reopening a ticket stated to be invalid with a "me too" is really not going to make you friends ;-)

[Emmanuel Blot]

(restoring original fields)

[A Concerned Community Member]

Raneesh,

You won't find these guys real helpful, as you can tell from the knee jerk reactions to your reopening of this ticket. The best answer you'll get is to not use ident or use another issue tracker. I guess they don't understand that you have many choices and they come off sounding cold and irrelevant.

[Emmanuel Blot]

Replying to A Concerned Community Member:

You won't find these guys real helpful, as you can tell from the knee jerk reactions to your reopening of this ticket.

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