Who is timdallman and why is his username hard-coded into the install? (Problems creating DB)

[jb2cool]

I've installed snapperdb via git/pip and following your instructions to create the DB i'm having issues

[sisadmin@jb snapperdb]$ snapperdb.py make_snpdb -c ebg4_config.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/snapperdb.py", line 8, in
execfile(file)
File "/home/sisadmin/snapperdb/snapperdb.py", line 12, in
from snapperdb import parse_config
File "/usr/bin/snapperdb.py", line 8, in
execfile(file)
File "/home/sisadmin/snapperdb/snapperdb.py", line 12, in
from snapperdb import parse_config
ImportError: cannot import name parse_config
[sisadmin@jb snapperdb]$

If i instead use the snapperdb.py in ~/snapperdb i get a slightly different error but still an error

[sisadmin@jb snapperdb]$ ./snapperdb.py make_snpdb -c ebg4_config.txt
Namespace(command='make_snpdb', config_file='ebg4_config.txt', fastqs=[], log_dir='/home/sisadmin/snapperdb')

Cant connect to SnapperDB ebg_4_snps

The SNPdb ebg_4_snps does not exist - running sql to create database
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./snapperdb.py", line 270, in
main()
File "./snapperdb.py", line 265, in main
run_command(args)
File "./snapperdb.py", line 97, in run_command
make_snpdb(config_dict)
File "/home/sisadmin/snapperdb/snapperdb/snpdb/init.py", line 83, in make_snpdb
snpdb.make_snpdb()
File "/home/sisadmin/snapperdb/snapperdb/snpdb/snpdb.py", line 162, in make_snpdb
conn = psycopg2.connect(make_db_conn_string)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/init.py", line 130, in connect
conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, **kwasync)
psycopg2.OperationalError: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "timdallman"
[sisadmin@jb snapperdb]$

This is a vanilla install of CentOS with a fresh Postgres install so i've not really touched anything yet. Any pointers where to start?

[jb2cool]

Ok, some of that was in jest, i do know that Tim is one of the devs for SnapperDB but something is surely wrong with a hard-coded username and i still don't seem to be able ot use this properly

[ulfschaefer]

I am not Tim Dallman, but it appears that you are using the default config file under user_configs. I suppose you need to make you own config file with access credentials to your own postgres database and use that.

[jb2cool]

ah yes, i see, thanks. I was using the default config/ref genomes purely as they were there ready for me to use