psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user “dev”

Question

when i create a new user, but it cannot login the database.
I do that like this:

postgres@Aspire:/home/XXX$ createuser dev
Shall the new role be a superu         


        

Answer 1

Try:

psql -U user_name  -h 127.0.0.1 -d db_name

where

• -U is the database user name
• -h is the hostname/IP of the local server, thus avoiding Unix domain sockets
• -d is the database name to connect to

This is then evaluated as a "network" connection by Postgresql rather than a Unix domain socket connection, thus not evaluated as a "local" connect as you might see in pg_hba.conf:

local   all             all                                     peer