Hi Firstly apologies but i have to install an app that uses postgres but i am more a MySQL/Oracle guy so i maybe doing something really wrong here.. I am following instructions for creating a DB user and encountering this # createuser -ADP -U postgres foo Enter password for new user: Enter it again: createuser: could not connect to database template1: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres" In a standard postgres install whats causing this? I presume its because the user postgres has a pwd but what is this and why am i not being prompted to enter this? Thanks and apologies as i know this is not directly a CentOS problem