FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "name"

[kathgironpe]

Need help debugging some issue. I have this config for a Rails 3.2.8 app:

require 'mina/bundler'
require 'mina/rails'
require 'mina/git'

set :user, 'user'
set :domain, 'somedomain.com'
set :deploy_to, "/home/#{user}/public_html/#{domain}"
set :repository,""

desc "Deploys the current version to the server."
task :deploy do
  deploy do
    # Put things that will set up an empty directory into a fully set-up
    # instance of your project.
    invoke :'git:clone'
    invoke :'bundle:install'
    invoke :'rails:db_migrate'
    invoke :'rails:assets_precompile'

    to :launch do
      queue "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/config/database.yml #{release_path}/config/database.yml"
      queue 'touch tmp/restart.txt'
    end
  end
end

Bundle install task is working.
rails:db_migrate and rails:assets_precompile give me this error:

FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "katherine"

Issue: My local user name is "katherine" but I specfically set :user to something else which is the username for the server
Why am I getting that error? I also don't have that username in any config file in the production server.

Other info: I do not use RVM. I have a capistrano config file that is working just fine with this line:

require 'bundler/capistrano'

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[kathgironpe]

Solved my problem. It was an issue with symbolic linking a file which did not exist!

[rstacruz]

Yo Kat! Great to know you got to fix the problem. I'm curious though (and I'm also asking for the benefit of whoever finds this through Google): what was the exact issue?

[kathgironpe]

@rstacruz The error is apparently a PostgreSQL connection error. I had to revise a bit to make sure the config/database.yml is correct. And on git, the database.yml could should be ignored. ln -s dir/config/database.yml current_path/config/database.yml makes sense and I had that but what went wrong is symbolic linking didn't work.